Serfs Quotes

Serfs Quote of the day

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.