Servitude Quotes

133 quotes by 103 authors

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's… — Jefferson Davis
Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. — Edmund Burke
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? — William J. Murray
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit… — Martin Luther
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of… — John Brown
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe… — Milton Friedman
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary… — Star Parker
It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation. — Simon Bolivar
My days â€“ the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood â€“ have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this… — Daniel O'Connell
Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please. — David Jeremiah
Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. — Indro Montanelli
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a… — Steven Biko
The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of… — Thomas MacDonagh
The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews… — Pope Innocent III
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to… — Lionel Terray
Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change… — Bob Black

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