Servile Quotes
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Servile Quotes & Sayings
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Then all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.
— William Wordsworth
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[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
— Edward Gibbon
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
— Sir Fulke Greville
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
— Charles Churchill
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
— Jonathan Swift
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
— Richard Jefferies
But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
— Ignazio Silone
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
— William Shakespeare
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[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
— Aaron Hill
Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.[Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
Que les imitateurs.] — Jean De La Fontaine
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
— Elsie De Wolfe
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
— Lord Byron
I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.
— William Wallace
On Creating - What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
— Emile M. Cioran
Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fearing servility, people become servile.
— Nawal El Saadawi
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
— Michel Foucault
We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.
— Parker J. Palmer
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
— John Dryden
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
— Andrew Ferguson
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
— Ben Jonson
