History Quotes / HappinessInSlavery

-->--'''Music/NineInchNails''', [[TropeNamers "Happiness In Slavery"]], ''Music/{{Broken}}''

-->--'''Music/NineInchNails''', [[TropeNamers "Happiness In Slavery"]]

->'''Vrang Soldier:''' Smile, all of you-- Show us how happy you are to be ruled by the Vrangs!\\
'''Kryptonian Woman:''' ''[smiling through her teeth]'' We are privileged to serve you, Masters!\\
'''Vrang Soldier:''' Who are you, stripling? Why do you not smile like the others?\\
'''Val-Lor:''' Because I'm no hypocrite! My name is Val-Lor-- and I despise you Vrangs! I wish you were all dead!\\
'''Vrang Soldier:''' ''[gunning him down]'' How dare that slave defy us? Ray-death is the penalty for such a crime!
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles''

->''"Ballas says, 'You are the Controller, Ordis.' And suddenly I have a body. I gasp with new lungs that clean old air. I swallow and my throat fills with cool, bright water. I look, and find myself in a great, black ocean. My limbs are made of iron and fire. I take flight among the stars and find I am... happy. He says, 'This is your Operator, who you love.' And I see the metal gleam of their armor, the flawless power of their frame. Through the glass I see a roaring, radiant fire for their heart. He says, It must never go out. It was the first time I ever felt... love."''

->'''Pa Grape:''' This time, I really mean it! We should go back to Egypt.\\
'''All:''' Huh?\\
'''Pa Grape:''' Don't you remember? Snorkeling in the Nile, three square meals a day, plenty of exercise; oh, it was paradise.\\
'''Tom:''' We were in slavery.\\
'''Pa Grape:''' Nothing is perfect.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{VeggieTales}}'', "[[Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode9JoshAndTheBigWall Josh And the Big Wall]]"

'''Crichton:''' So, you, um... you let [[WithFriendsLikeThese them]] cut off one of your arms.\\
'''Pilot:''' I didn't exactly ''let'' them. [[SympathyForTheDevil They have the opportunity to go home: the drive is very strong]].\\

->Slave screams\\
He's going to cause the system to fall\\
Slave screams\\
But he's glad to be chained to that wall
-->--'''Music/NineInchNails''', [[TropeNamers "Happiness In Slavery"]]

->So I'm sitting here obediently\\
Waiting for orders patiently\\
And I know I'm not to move from this seat\\
You don't need to tie me down\\
Don't wanna be free
-->-- '''Bitter Ruin''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMBXCPpj_Bo "Soldier"]]

->Human race! For such an intelligent lot, you aren't half susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control, and you submit! Sometimes I think you ''like'' it. Easy life.
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]]

->My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?
-->-- '''Chairman Sheng-ji Yang''', ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

->Be a clone and kiss conviction goodnight\\
Cloneliness is next to Godliness, right?
-->-- '''Music/SteveTaylor''', "I Wanna Be a Clone"

->O homines ad servitutem paratos.\\
(How eager they are to be slaves.)
-->-- '''Emperor Tiberius'''

->Thought For The Day: The loyal slave learns to love the lash.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

->Queen Scarlet would roll Glory into the sunlight and let her [[ChameleonCamouflage change colours]] however she wanted all day long. She didn't try to talk to her. She never touched her or [[TrainingFromHell yelled]] at her or [[FantasticRacism insulted]] her or [[TheUnchosenOne compared her to anyone.]] Scarlet's only wish had been for Glory to [[BeautifulDreamer sleep and be beautiful.]]\\
''[[BlatantLies But I didn't love it,]]'' Glory told herself fiercely. It was just new and different. A new, different way for me to be a prisoner and have my life chosen for me. I'm more than a lump of treasure.
-->-- '''Glory''', ''Literature/WingsOfFire: The Hidden Kingdom''

->'''Pilot:''' Don't concern yourself, Crichton. I will be fine: [[GoodThingYouCanHeal my species has superior regenerative abilities]].\\
'''Crichton:''' So, you, um... you let [[WithFriendsLikeThese them]] cut off one of your arms.\\
'''Pilot:''' I didn't exactly ''let'' them. [[SympathyForTheDevil They have the opportunity to go home: the drive is very strong]].\\
'''Crichton:''' I will never understand you people. How can you not be angry? ''Insanely'' angry?\\
'''Pilot:''' When one of [[TheSymbiote my species]] is bonded to a [[LivingShip Leviathan]], we give our lives to the service of others: ship first, then those who travel aboard her.\\
'''Crichton:''' No matter what those aboard do to you?\\
'''Pilot:''' My species is incapable of spaceflight on our own. If we wish to journey beyond our home planet, this is the trade-off we make for the chance to see the galaxy. I consider it a perfectly equitable arrangement.
-->--''Series/{{Farscape}}'', [[Recap/FarscapeS01E09DNAMadScientist "DNA Mad Scientist"]]

->''"To some, a life of service is neither insult nor shame."''
--> -- '''Flavius''', slave to Archon Radonis, ''ComicBook/{{Magekiller}}''

->''"Nothing can be more certain than that every man born in slavery is born for slavery. Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them: they love their servitude... If then there are slaves by nature, it is because there have been slaves against nature. Force made the first slaves, and their cowardice perpetuated the condition."''
-->-- '''Creator/JeanJacquesRousseau'''

-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''

->'''Shamo:''' Actually we much enjoy the slavery.\\
'''Gohan:''' Say what?\\
'''Shamo:''' Yes, being enslaved and exploited by another, stronger, ''strapping'' race fulfills us completely.
-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan''

'''Reketrebn:''' [[BondCreature Without him to serve, I'm nothing]].
-->--''Literature/RedDwarf: Last Human''

-->--''Videogame/TheOuterWorlds''

->"...the wonderful feeling of being dominated by a god... so irresistible! Please, say it again, Nanami-chan! Bind me with the invisible chain!"
-->--'''Mizuki''', ''Manga/KamisamaKiss''

->"Okay, here's what I remember. We all smashed in there, into Darkseid's bedroom or whatever it was, El, Kara Two, Kid El, the two Action chaps, and the Flash Trio. You'd have thought that among the batch of us, there would have been somebody fast enough to have dropped him before he said the word. But we weren't."\\
"It must've just been one word. Or he must've been talking very fast. Whatever he said, I don't remember it... I don't think I'm supposed to remember it. All I know is that every one of us froze in our tracks. In our souls. Scared the hell out of me, and I'm not ashamed to say it. For a second there, I felt like I'd been damned. Literally. Then I was looking at that grey-faced geezer, and I swear, it felt like..."\\
"...it felt like I was in love with him. That I'd do everything for him. That I didn't have to do any thinking anymore, that he'd do it...do it all for me. That nothing had to be done but what he said, what he wanted. That his will was like the Great Mainspring of the Universe."
-->-- '''Dev-Em''', ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''

->"I have known freedom. Didn't like the health plan."
-->--'''Geoffrey''', ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''

->''Life is so unnerving\\
For a servant who's not serving\\
He's not whole without a soul to wait upon\\
Ah, those good old days when we were useful...\\
Suddenly those good old days are gone\\
Ten years we've been rusting\\
Needing so much more than dusting\\
Needing exercise, a chance to use our skills!\\
Most days we just lay around the castle\\
Flabby, fat and lazy\\
You walked in and oops-a-daisy!''
-->--''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', "Be Our Guest"

->'''Vrang Soldier:''' "Smile, all of you-- Show us how happy you are to be ruled by the Vrangs!"\\
'''Kryptonian Woman:''' (smiling through her teeth) "We are privileged to serve you, Masters!"\\
'''Vrang Soldier:''' "Who are you, stripling? Why do you not smile like the others?"\\
'''Val-Lor:''' "Because I'm no hypocrite! My name is Val-Lor-- and I despise you Vrangs! I wish you were all dead!"\\
'''Vrang Soldier:''' (gunning him down) "How dare that slave defy us? Ray-death is the penalty for such a crime!"
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles''

-->--''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''

-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- '''Glory''' considering this trope, ''Literature/WingsOfFire: The Hidden Kingdom''

-->-- '''{{Disney/Aladdin}}''', "Prince Ali"

->'''[[ShapeshiftingSeducer Reketrebn]]:''' Deki is my host.
->'''Lister:''' He beats you. He treats you like... a dog. No, worse, he treats you like a whore.
->'''Reketrebn:''' [[MentalFusion He's my host]].
->'''Lister:''' He doesn't deserve you.
->'''Reketrebn:''' [[BondCreature Without him to serve, I'm nothing]].

'''Reed Tobson''': "Liberating"? [[CompanyTown Edgewater]] is my home. The only home I've ever had. I put down roots here. Gave decades of my life to this place. I never asked to be liberated.