Enervates Quotes
- Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by… — Emile M. Cioran
- We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and… — Ronald Steel
- Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original… — Alexis de Tocqueville