Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille 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
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
That's how the Germans are… The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Millions of people are getting the vote, and we have to educate them to keep them from our throats. In other words,… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
