Servility Quotes
Servility Quote of the day
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?