Servile Quotes

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing,… — Lord Byron
Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be… — James G. Blaine
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather… — Dilys Laing
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile… — Anna Quindlen
We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We… — William O. Douglas
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle,… — Thomas Young
A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. — William Shakespeare
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason… — Jean-Paul Marat
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and… — Cyril Connolly
Force works on servile natures, not the free. — Ben Jonson
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the… — Walter Karp
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… — Edward Abbey
Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in… — Edward Abbey
On Creating â€” What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures. — Emile M. Cioran
I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter. — William Wallace
The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of… — John Rarick
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human beingâ€”confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-orientedâ€”is a vast improvement… — Dinesh D'Souza
If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope… — Christopher Hitchens

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