“It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
“Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.” — Flann O'Brien 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
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
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
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther 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
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 see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you. — Joni Mitchell 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that… — Hilaire Belloc 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
“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted… — Ernst Bloch Copy Share Image
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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
. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
“In the old man's face there was nothing very special - save that the chin was so greatly projected that whenever he… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. (… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image
Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of sportsmen are left with little choice as regards how to play, serfs to their talent, but the very… — Daniel Harris 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
![“. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/thomas-huxley-1183_bible_i-fail-to-find-a-trace-in-protestantism_1736418.png)
