Quotes About Servitude

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?

The American's principal means of action is liberty; the Russian's, servitude.Their points of departure are different, their ways diverse. Yet each seems called by a secret design of Providence some day to sway the destinies of half the globe.

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,With vassals and serfs at my side.

If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

It sometimes so happens that people who imagine that they are fighting the devil, whatever their particular notion of the devil may be, are thus turned, without any suspicion of the fact on their part, into his best servants!

il arrive malheureusement parfois que ceux qui croient combattre le diable, quelque idée qu'ils s'en fassent d'ailleurs, se trouvent ainsi tout simplement, sans s'en douter le moins du monde, transformés en ses meilleurs serviteurs !

So, what do they pay you for...exactly? Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things. What kind of things? You know. No, I can't even begin to imagine. Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog. Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?

The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's

undying grattitude? Simon looked at me. Cool. Dosethat come with eternal servitude? if so, i like my eggs sunnyside up. i smiled, i'll remember that.

Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

We are the slaves of slaves

She slapped Kestrel's face. Without thinking twice, Kestrel slapped her back, as hard as she could. The young woman burst into tears. The servant saw this, aghast. "Baby!" She exclaimed. "Oh, my poor baby!" "You've been kind to me," said Kestrel, "and you're very beautiful, but if you hit me again I'll kill you.

Todos seguían borrachos de proyectos con los reinos de caoba, de canela y de especias que todavía se escondían en las regiones inexploradas, y estaban dispuestos a macerar hasta el polvo a esos millones de criaturas sin nombre, con piel de barro y corazón de arcilla, que Dios había destinado para su servidumbre

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,Say this.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

The vaunted liberty which was to make us free has eventuated in a more galling servitude to man's lower nature—especially to sex on the one hand, and to autocratic political power on the other. It is only the truth which can make us free and the truth is that liberty unchecked by law, the Natural Law of God and human law in accordance with the law of God, leads to license and thence to servitude.

Ä°yilikte bir ÅŸey yok. Güzel ve zengin olunca elbette iyi olur insan. Mesele adil olmakta. Ama bu adaletsizlikte hizmetçi ol da iyi ol bakal?m!

But the one thing all of the people in the Ape Yard had in common was that they were trapped, caught in that basin of poverty and servitude to Doc Bobo in the hollow, and held in place by the weight of the white structure beyond. For them, escape seemed futile at the outset.

We cannot see beyond the door, we know not what he hath in store, we can but bow our hearts and pray, for strength to serve Him day by day