Servility Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility. — Henry Ward Beecher
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have… — Adolf Hitler
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid… — Margot Asquith
Religion fosters servility and solipsism. — Christopher Hitchens
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should… — Federico Zuccari
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the… — Georges Cuvier
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is… — Thomas Merton
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be… — John Andreas Widtsoe
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and… — Etienne de La Boetie
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the… — Anna Politkovskaya
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The… — Samuel Johnson
We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. — Paulo Coelho
In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility. — Max Lucado
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the… — David O. McKay
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to… — Sydney, Lady Morgan
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure… — Frances Power Cobbe

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