Servitude Quotes
133 quotes by 103 authors
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
— Albert Camus
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946,…
— Daniel Berrigan
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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her…
— John Calvin
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty…
— John Philpot Curran
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By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into…
— Strom Thurmond
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Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to…
— Michael Ghiselin
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The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must…
— Winston Churchill
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
— Thomas Jefferson
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but…
— Calvin Coolidge
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And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to…
— Georges Bernanos
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and…
— Andrea Dworkin
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by…
— Angela Davis
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Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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