Serfs Quotes

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According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing,… — Daniel J. Mitchell
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,… — Mao Zedong
If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed… — Rush Limbaugh
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in… — H. L. Mencken
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I… — Alfred Bunn
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It… — David Korten
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily… — Henry David Thoreau
According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns… — Paul Craig Roberts
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. — John Lothrop Motley
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew… — Ralph Nader
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that… — Joseph Sobran
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to… — Maya Angelou
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by… — John Dewey
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. — Julian Assange
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to… — Niger Innis
They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in… — Denis Kearney
Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks and rising serfs… — Vladimir Nabokov

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