Servitude Quotes
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Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.
David Jeremiah
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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
John Milton
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus
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I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
William Shenstone
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
William Cullen Bryant
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This is servitude, To serve th' unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.
John Milton
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Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.
Andre Comte-Sponville
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The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
Antonio Negri
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No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.
Epictetus
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
William J. Murray
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I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.
Amanda Marcotte
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
Seneca the Younger
