enslaved quotes

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

- Franz Grillparzer
  Sappho, act 2, sc.4.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Getting Married, preface,'The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy'.