A Quote by Diogenes

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Diogenes

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Diogenes
Greek - Philosopher
412 BC - 323 BC

All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

Malcolm X

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

Aristotle

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

George Bernard Shaw

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Alice Oswald

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

Albert Parsons

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

Peter McWilliams

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

Cory Booker

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

Malcolm X

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.

Voltairine de Cleyre

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

Henry Miller

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

James G. Frazer

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

Mark Kostabi

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Susan Sontag

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