Quotes tagged ‘slaves’

“We were slaves once. The daylight guardians of the vampires. I was born into servitude. Yet I harbored them no ill will. Even took a vampire for my bride. It was forbidden, our union. Viktor feared a blending of the species. Feared it so much he killed her. His own daughter. Burnt alive for loving m…”

— Danny McBride, Lucian, Michael Sheen, imdb.com

“[looking at the slaves in the Slave Market] Proximo: Do any of them fight? I’ve got a match coming up. Slave Trader: Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think.”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Antonius Proximo, Oliver Reed, imdb.com

“Kevin Jackson: Jefferson used to sleep with his slaves. The book don't say nothin' about that. They don't even say how he even had slaves. Washington neither. So I don't see why I should bust my black ass reading about a bunch of lies. Harvey Lipschultz: Well, you see Mr. Jackson, my job is to see t…”

— David E Kelley, Harvey Lipschultz, Fyvush Finkel, imdb.com

“One people will we be — a band of brothers; No danger, no distress shall sunder us. We will be freemen as our fathers were, And sooner welcome death than live as slaves. We will rely on God's almighty arm, And never quail before the power of man.”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“Only if the sublime is married to the beautiful and our sensitivity to both has been shaped in equal measure, are we complete citizens of nature, without on that account being its slaves, and without squandering our citizenship in the intelligible world.”

— Friedrich Schiller, plato.stanford.edu

“Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit…”

— Chuck Pahlaniuk, Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt, amazon.com

“You know, there’s a conspiracy theory that, after the Civil War, the U.S. government spread false information about diabetes to keep the newly-freed slaves sluggish and docile, which is why, to this date, most African Americans don’t understand that diabetes is caused by sleeping on your back.”

— Tami Sagher, Toofer, Keith Powell, imdb.com

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alo…”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress yo…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com