Quotes About Servitude

Pero no teníamos hambre, nosotros teníamos un criado y comíamos, a veces, es cierto, porquerías, zancudas, caimanes, pero tales porquerías estaban cocinadas por un criado y servidas por él y a veces incluso no las queríamos, nos permitíamos el lujo de no querer comer.

What bothered her was not that the tasks that had to be done were exerting. It was not even that they were tedious. It was that she felt that the three others lived their lives and she went around after them cleaning up their mess. She was an unpaid servant, expected to do a superlative job. In return, she was permitted to call this house hers. But so did they.

We do so many things together. We go to theatres, exhibitions, bookstores, we spend hours and hours discussing politics, books, films, friends. And you think I do these things for the same reason you do, because I enjoy them. But you're wrong. I do them all for it, for the tapeworm. That's how it seems to me: that my whole life is no longer for my sake but for the sake of what I carry inside me, of which I am now no more than a servant.

Ella nunca me había amado, pero me tenía confianza, el cariño que despierta un criado leal.

Money is a good servant but a bad master. —SIR FRANCIS BACON

Truth serves only its slaves.

Zambo, who is a black Hercules, as willing as any horse, and about as intelligent.

Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.

L'intelligence n'a rien à trouver, elle a à déblayer. Elle n'est bonne qu'aux tâches serviles.

Ten years I toiled for that man without reward. Ten years of my incessant labor has contributed to increase the bulk of his possessions. Ten years I was compelled to address him with downcast eyes and uncovered head—in the attitude and language of a slave. I am indebted to him for nothing, save undeserved abuse and stripes.

There's no room for pride, not in a slave, not with the lord and master standing by.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

Stari sufletesti conditionate? Dar de cine? De lume? Dar ea nu exista decat pentru servitori. Si viata este o realitate doar pentru oamenii dintr-o bucata, inchinatori inconstienti ai vesnicei prostii.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger. Society tolerates you only if you are successfully servile and despotic; it is a prison without guards – but from which you do not escape without dying.

Todas estas universas e infinitas gentes a toto genero crió Dios los más simples, sin maldades ni dobleces, obedientísimas, fidelísimas a sus señores naturales e a los cristianos a quien sirven; más humildes, más pacientes, más pacíficas e quietas, sin rencillas ni bollicios, no rijosos, no querulosos, sin rancores, sin odios, sin desear venganzas, que hay en el mundo. Son

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.

A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work is needed or not, he must work, because work in itself is good—for slaves, at least.

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Lo serio, la muerte y el dolor fundan la verdad obtusa. Pero lo serio de la muerte y el dolor es la servidumbre del pensamiento.

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.

The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did our bidding. The centerpiece was a roasted stag. crowned with gilded antlers and stuffed with songbirds; they had hunted well. We were forbidden to kill the deer that fattened on our coleworts and stole our grain, and the venison tasted all the better for the salt of revenge.

For more than a century of slavery and another century of segregation Negroes did not find mass unity nor could they mount mass actions. The American brand of servitude tore them apart and held them in paralyzed solitude.