Servile Quotes

50 quotes by 45 authors

The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he… — R C Sproul
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. — Margaret Fuller
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat… — Hubert Harrison
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people… — Samuel Williams
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule… — Elsie de Wolfe
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. — William Wordsworth
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species… — Samuel Johnson
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features… — Francisco Goya
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to… — Edward Everett Hale
Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can… — Josef Pieper
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female,… — Nikolai Berdyaev
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to… — Charles Churchill
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not… — Theodore Roosevelt
This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we… — Thalia
That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. — Charlie Sheen
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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