Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou 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 politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell 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
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. — Franz Grillparzer 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
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
May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions… — David O. McKay 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state… — Walt Whitman 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
