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Quotes About Servitude

The days of the moneylender have arrived, and the days of the swaggering privateer; banker sits down with banker, and kings are their waiting boys.
~ Hilary Mantel
Well, you know the form,' Bedingfield says. 'She lives in that room and has her ladies – those ones – cook for her over the fire. You knock and go in, and if you call her Lady Katherine she kicks you out, and if you call her Your Highness she lets you stay. So I call her nothing. You, I call her. As if she were a girl that scrubs the steps.
~ Hilary Mantel
No, I cannot see myself serving Balekin.
~ Holly Black
We did not send for you, and we do not need you!' Randalin begins, clearly intending to give some servant- probably Fand- the tongue-lashing he wishes he could bestow on my person. Then he blanches and lurches to his feet. The High King stands in the doorway. His eyebrows rise, and a malicious smile pulls at the corners of his mouth. 'Many think that, but few are bold enough to say it to my face.
~ Holly Black
After all the humiliations I have suffered, all the things I have done for my mistresses at their commands, here I am in a dirty human restaurant, serving coffee to fools. For Kaye. Because I am free to. Because I think it would please her. Because I think it would make her laugh.' 'It's definitely going to make her laugh,' Corny said. 'Thus I am saved from my own grim self,' Roiben said, shrugging his shoulders, a small smile lifting his mouth.
~ Holly Black
For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.
~ Unknown
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
~ Oscar Wilde
The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.
~ Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.
~ Mike Bidlo
David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966), explored at length the paradox of slavery and freedom in human history, noting that John Locke and other advocates of liberty at times supported the institution of human bondage.38 Other historians have noted the extent to which the call for freedom often assumed the form of a rejection of servitude, even among slaveholders themselves.39
~ Unknown
Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly, Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap, Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve, Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.
~ Vachel Lindsay
War is less burdensome than servitude.
~ Vauvenargues
Servitude degrades men even to making them love it
~ Vauvenargues
What did your last slave die of?
~ Unknown
I'd always thought of Jeeves as a kind of natural phenomenon; but, by Jove! of course, when you come to think of it, there must be quite a lot of fellows who have to press their own clothes themselves, and haven't got anybody to bring them tea in the morning, and so on. It was rather a solemn thought, don't you know. I mean to say, ever since then I've been able to appreciate the frightful privations the poor have to stick.
~ Unknown
Do androids dream? Rick asked himself. Evidently; that's why they occasionally kill their employers and flee here. A better life, without servitude. Like Luba Luft; singing Don Giovanni and Le Nozze instead of toiling across the face of a barren rock-strewn field. On a fundamentally uninhabitable colony world.
~ Philip K. Dick
Nós não servimos as pessoas; o universo serve. O universo toma certas decisões, e com base nessas decisões algumas pessoas vivem e outras morrem. É uma lei dura. Mas toda criatura obedece a ela por necessidade.
~ Philip K. Dick
sueñan los andorides? , se pregunto Rick. Era evidente: por eso de vez en cuando mataban a sus amos y venían a la Tierra. A vivifr una vida mejor, sin servidumbre
~ Philip K. Dick
He was her devoted slave by this time; he would have followed her to the ends of the earth.
~ Philip Pullman
If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God it will be well," Samuel affirms. "But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king" (1 Samuel 12:14
~ David Limbaugh
These human beasts of burden were recruited to work alongside oxen and donkeys, or, in the case of many captive women, to satisfy the victors' sexual urges. The origin of slavery in warfare is preserved in the etymology of the word servant, which comes from the Latin servare ("save"). Servants were "saved" for forced labor instead of being summarily executed.
~ David Livingstone Smith
Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.
~ Idries Shah
Es el hombre completo quien, desde su completez, lleva a cabo, con su maestría, el trabajo de un esclavo.
~ Idries Shah