It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
I've always been a slave to my heart.
The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.