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 sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille 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
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising… — George Henry Lewes 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink… — Marcel Proust 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