Slavish Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination… — John Adams
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior… — George Washington
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more… — Seneca the Younger
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind — Mary Wollstonecraft
The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them.… — Benjamin Carson
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning… — Matt Taibbi
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Jack Granatstein
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which… — Ulysses S. Grant
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. — Thomas Boston
Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. — Kim Il-sung
Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than any other person's.… — William Walker Atkinson
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward… — Edward Dahlberg
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to… — Philip Berrigan
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious]. — William Penn
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of… — Herman Melville
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language… — Harry Mathews
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. — Jean de La Fontaine
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant

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