Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
That's how the Germans are… The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
