Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell 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
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
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
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
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
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free.… — Federico Zuccari Copy Share Image
The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding 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
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
