Quotes About Servitude

Just outside Tehran we passed a sign that said, 'Servitude is never accepted in an ideology that believes in Martyrdom'. Below was a picture of a white dove copping a bullet in the heart.

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants appointed for that purpose. I

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

I do not know how it happens that nature fails to place within the hearts of men a burning desire for liberty, a blessing so great and so desirable that when it is lost all evils follow thereafter, and even the blessings that remain lose taste and savor because of their corruption by servitude. Liberty is the only joy upon which men do not seem to insist; for surely if they really wanted it they would receive it. Apparently they refuse this wonderful privilege because it is so easily acquired.

Somos subjugados porque concordamos e entregamos nossa liberdade por uso do nosso livre-arbítrio. Não se trata de natureza, não é sina ou destino, mas a vontade dos homens de se curvarem diante do poder. A servidão é escolha, e, naturalmente, escolha voluntária.

Il compito dello Stato nei confronti del capitale era perciò semplice e chiaro: esso doveva badare a che restasse il servitore dello Stato e non cercasse di diventare il padrone della Nazione. Questa posizione correva perciò lungo due direzioni: conservazione di un'economia nazionale ed indipendente da una parte, assicurazione dei diritti sociali degli operai dall'altra

Hidup sebagai nyai terlalu sulit. Dia cuma seorang budak belian yang kewajibannya hanya memuaskan tuannya. Dalam segala hal! Sebaliknya setiap waktu orang harus bersiap-siap terhadap kemungkinan tuannya sudah merasa bosan. Salah-salah bisa badan diusir dengan semua anak, anak sendiri, yang tidak dihargai oleh umum Pribumi karena dilahirkan tanpa perkawinan syah.

I know Antoinette, it was a long time ago but it was still my fault and I hope that the work we are doing now will weigh in favor of my soul one day, against the horrible mistake I made all those years ago". "I am sure it will, Alexander, but for now if we can operate inconspicuously and just change one vampire at a time back to their human self and give them their life back it will have to be servitude enough". "It

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

Why must a man be always taking on Things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn't dare ask: Master, why this banquet?

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

Kings, ministers, aristocrats, the rich in general, kept the people in poverty and subjection; they kept them as they kept dogs, to fight and hunt for their service.

The serenity of truth and the peace of death can be only secured through a largeness of contempt embracing all the profitable servitudes of life. He

God never wanted our indentured servitude but to share his life with his grateful children.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

Thousands of the Scotch-Irish began their New World careers as servants.

The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude.