The vast majority of sportsmen are left with little choice…

It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave…

— Hilaire Belloc

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the…

— Mao Zedong

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage…

— Mikhail Bakunin

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he…

— Robert Graves

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more…

— Henry David Thoreau

...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf…

— Kenneth W. Royce

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . .…

— Hilaire Belloc

“In the old man's face there was nothing very special - save that the chin was so greatly projected that whenever he spoke he…

— Nikolai Gogol

Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be serfs on…

— Thomas Pogge

“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole…

— Ernst Bloch

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never…

— Ralph Nader

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

— Homer

The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage