May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. — Leigh Hunt 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
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
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
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free.… — Federico Zuccari Copy Share Image
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise… During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image