“I am not your lab partner. I am not your friend. I’m your slave. You want to know what happens on the other side? Put yourself in that machine and die for it.”— Melanie Marnich, Prairie Johnson, Brit Marling, imdb.com
“I hate luxury. I exercise moderation...It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.”— Genghis Khan, amazon.com
“To be a slave to an idea of coolness is why some of your friends never grow and in the end are actually less themselves, and counterintuitively live less authentic lives than the buyers-in.”— Stephen Falk, Lexi, Tara Summers, imdb.com
“The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com