Servitude Quotes - Page 7

• Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.

  Dick Armey

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we never dealt with that evil, I don't think slavery ended in 1865, it just evolved.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, Differences, Evil

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

  Saddam Hussein

  Building Up, Oil, Challenges

  "President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day", Baghdad : Dar al-Ma'mun for Translation and Pub, 1981.

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• We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are engaged in some form of servitude of people. I don't look favorably on either one although I think properly practiced all religions are basically good.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

  Noam Chomsky

  Slavery, Association, Welfare

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

  Saadi

  Hands, Attendance, Use

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• We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

  Philip Sidney

  Virtue, Servant, Willing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

  Julian Young

  Miserable, Consciousness, Moments

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Black History, Culture, Study

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

  Seneca the Younger

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• But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Short Life, Eye

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Years, Two

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.

  Dawn Johnsen

  Pregnancy, Order, Choices

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• They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

  Plato

  Law, Tyrants, Way

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

  George W. Bush

  America, Bully, Liberty

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Heart, Men

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume I, Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

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• As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

  Julian Huxley

  Fate, Dope, Political

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• There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Problem, Economic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.

  Margaret Sanger

  Sex, Motherhood, Important

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.1, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

  Margaret of Valois

  Slave, Force, Duty

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• Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Character, Mean, Men

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• All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Needs, Satisfaction, Consciousness

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

  John Milton

  Thee, Unwise, Thyself

  1665 Abdiel to Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.178-81.

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• Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Slavery, Coercion, Cowardice

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• The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Believe, School, Sight

  "The State: Its Historic Role". Book by Peter Kropotkin, www.panarchy.org. 1897.

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