I own nothing, but at least nothing owns me. Well, besides the bank.

I have sometimes thought–that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky – under each bulb – down...

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Además de esclavo de las palabras, a veces se es también esclavo de los silencios, sobre todo de los más cobardes.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason...

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t’ unloose; smooth every passionThat in the...

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn’t her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never...

Euripides long ago said, ‘who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.’ I nominated myself as an ‘infidel’ as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but – what is worse – the slave of as many...

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Place thy foot upon thy slave,Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams;Among the shadows, dark and grave,Thy extended body softly gleams.

A man choses. A slave obeys.

This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.