Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Their authority over their slaves renders them vain and imperious.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses—the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Here's a history lesson: when men took power of their lands, all of a sudden, women became a prize. In order for us to be protected, we had to make sure that we had our partner on our side. We were put in a position where our vulnerability was a life and death scenario. And we were taken advantage of, and we were put in a certain place that we had never been put in before.

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.