Servile Quotes

50 Servile quotes by 45 unique authors

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
I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole… — C S Forester
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though… — John Milton
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud… — Robert Burns
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to… — Virginia Woolf
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not… — William Wilberforce
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what… — Christopher Hitchens
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance. — Richard Jefferies
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. — Lord Byron
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein: But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a… — Bible
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep… — Bible

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