“Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. — Homer Copy Share Image
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those… — Alfred Bunn Copy Share Image
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule… — Homer Copy Share Image
If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
“Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system,… — John Adams 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 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
I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed. — Homer Copy Share Image
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther 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
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
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
Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“In Russia, serfs were breaking out of self-sufficiency and began buying and selling goods at weekly markets and nearby fairs in the… — Frank Trentmann 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
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
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
