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Tag Name "Servility" (29)

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That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.
Alfred Doblin
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O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!
William Shakespeare
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Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish a savage servility slides by on grease.
Robert Lowell
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Bernard Crick
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Rules serve no purpose they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.
Federico Zuccari
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Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Bernard Crick
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He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
Frances Power Cobbe
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Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
Christopher Hitchens
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison
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A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
Virginia Woolf
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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Fearing servility, people become servile.
Nawal El Saadawi
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
Hosea Ballou
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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 each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.
Georges Bataille
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
Tacitus
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We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
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