La femme marie¤  e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

Be not the slave of words.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.8.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

-Connolly,James
  The Re-conquest of Ireland.

The worst your malice can, Is but to say the greatest of mankind Has been my slave. The next, but far above him In my esteem, is he whom law calls yours, But whom his love made mine.

-Dryden,John
  Cleopatra boasts to Octavia of her conquest of Caesar and Antony.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Representative Men,'Goethe'.

You maydream freely whenyou listen tomusic as well as when you look at painting.When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

-Gauguin, Paul
c.1888  Notes Synthe¤  tiques, quoted in  J Rewald Gauguin (1938).

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

-Greer, Germaine
  Of the mother's subjugation to her family's demands. The Female Eunuch,'Love: Family'.

   Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.2, pt.3, section 3.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when theyare right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

It appears toYour Majesty's slave that we are very deficient in means, and have not the shells and rockets used by the barbarians.We must, therefore, adopt other methods to stop them, which will be easy, as they have opened negotiations.

-Kishen   fl.c.1840
  Report, Mar, to the Chinese Emperor during the1st Opium War,1839^42.

L'esclave n'a qu'un ma|"tre; l'ambitieux en a autantqu'il ya des gens utiles a'   sa fortune. A slave has but one master; an ambitious person has as many as he needs to make his fortune.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Du c½ur', no.70.

'A house divided against itself cannot stand': I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half- slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fallöbut I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

-Lincoln, Abraham
  Speech, Springfield,16  Jun.

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

-Mandeville, Bernard
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).

   Slavery broke the world in half, it broke it in every way. It broke Europe.It madethem intosomething else, it made themslave masters, it madethem crazy.You can't dothat for hundreds of years and it not take a toll. They had to dehumanize, not just the slaves but themselves.

-Morrison,Toni Chloe Anthony ne¤  e Wofford
Quoted in Paul Gilroy Small  Acts (1993),'Living memory: a meeting with Toni Morrison'.

Herren-Moral und Sklaven-Moral. Master morality and slave morality.

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
  Jenseits von Gut und Bo«  se (Beyond Good and Evil), section 260 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks thro' Nature, up to Nature's God.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.331^2.

My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a piece of it, just like you.

-Robeson, Paul
  Statement to the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities.

But ruffian stern, and soldier good, The noble and the slave, From various cause the same wild road, On the same bloody morning, trode, To that dark innöthe Grave!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lord of the Isles, canto 6, stanza 26.

O, the rare tricks of a Machiavellian! He doth not come, like a gross plodding slave, And buffet you to death; no, my quaint knave, He tickles you to death, makes you die laughing.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 5, sc.3.

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

-Wiener, Norbert
  The Human Use of Human Beings.