Servitude Quotes - Page 2

• Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Freedom, Thinking, Men

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• Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Liberty, Rewards

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• Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape of my dreams, the dreams I had every day about living ordinarily and free and on my own. He changed the colors on the palette from primary to rainbow—as dark as the colors of that rainbow may be.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Dream, Dark, Color

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “Killing Sarai”, p.279, J.A. Redmerski

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• Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Liberty, Tyranny

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• ‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Caring, Government

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• The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Men, Rights

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• The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Liberty, Prohibition

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• Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Hands, Security And Freedom

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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• Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Yoga, Health, Men

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

  Georges Bataille

  Crush, Men, Being Free

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• We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Government, Self, Quiet

  C. E. Donkoh, Kwame Nkrumah (1978). “Mother Africa mourns Kwame Nkrumah, the Emancipator”

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

  Gerrit Smith

  Needs, Slavery, Prove

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.6

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• I am as free as nature first made man,
  Ere the base laws of servitude began,
  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Men, Law

  The Conquest of Granada pt. 1, act 1, sc. 1 (1670)

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• I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

  Bryan Cranston

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks Breaking Bad Season 3 and 4, Total Recall, Drive, Rock of Ages, Larry Crowne & Lincoln Lawyer". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Fellow Man, Assuming

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11

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• Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

  William C. Bryant

  Tyrants, Yoke, Reign

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

  William Shenstone

  Silly, Character, People

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107

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• Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Freedom, Fall, Hands

  "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

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• We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Welfare, Government Debt, Historical

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

  Fritz Leiber

  Warm, Chilly

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Swords in the Mist”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Thinking

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• It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Voice, Giving

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• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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