Top 199 Servitude Quotes & Sayings

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.

For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

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.

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.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or 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.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

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.

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

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.

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.

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.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.

This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

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.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.