Servitude Quotes
Servitude Quote of the day
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.
No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.
History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.
This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.
Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.
Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.
undying grattitude?" Simon looked at me. " Cool. Dosethat come with eternal servitude? if so, i like my eggs sunnyside up." i smiled," i'll remember that.
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.