Mark Lawrence Quotes

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

We are the slaves of slaves

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

We will make your women bear our children who will become your masters.

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

I do not blame those who wish to rule the Athenians, but those who are over-ready to serve.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.