When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house,… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest… — David Korten Copy Share Image
If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
