Slavery Quotes – Reflective Thoughts on Slavery

"It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement."

Étienne de La Boétie

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance."

Alexis De Tocqueville

"Remember Solzhenitsyn’s words in the Gulag Archipelago: “Resistance should have began right there but it did not.""

Bill Cooper

"This is a fight between a free world and a slave world."

Henry A. Wallace

"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."

Voltaire

"Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves."

David Graeber

"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them."

Samuel Adams

"For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to."

Albert Jay Nock

"Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power."

Ludwig von Mises

"Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain."

Ben Carson

"The taxpayer gets literally nothing in return for the life of practical slavery he has to spend in the support of the Government."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

Albert Camus

"The worst thing I know is subservience or the desire to absolutely submit oneself, this joining in, going along, singing along, marching along, and at the same time falling into an embarrassing euphoria."

Heinrich Böll

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."

Ayn Rand

"The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery."

Ayn Rand

"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence."

Ayn Rand

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."

Thomas Jefferson