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Servility Quotes by Georges Bataille
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
- I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein…
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- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
- I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the… — Adolf Hitler
- The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the… — Margot Asquith
- In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — 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… — Thomas Merton
- It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only… — Etienne de La Boetie