Subservience Quotes

• Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Way, Tyranny, Begets

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• Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.

  Enoch Powell

  Crazy, Self, Order

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• The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

  Allan Boesak

  Spiritual, Self, Justice

  Allan Aubrey Boesak (1978). “Black theology, black power”

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• Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dignity, Politeness

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• The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

  T. J. Clark

  Art, Half, Painting

  T. J. Clark (2015). “The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Government, Design

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing.

  Klaus Balkenhol

  Horse, Voice, Joy

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• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

  Harriet Martineau

  Europe, Class, Suffering

  "Society in America". Book by Harriet Martineau, 1837.

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• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

  Amiri Baraka

  Loss, Men, White Man

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• I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

  Susan Strasberg

  Would Be, Pieces, Pay

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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• Dependence leads to subservience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Libertarian, Dependence

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• ...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

  R. H. Tawney

  Mean, Political, Democracy

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.166, Verso Books

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."

  Walter Karp

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

  John Major

  Europe, Britain, Moved

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• In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'

  Warren Farrell

  Smart, Rap, Men

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

  Michael Foot

  Party, Criticism, Debate

  Tribune, 1954.

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• Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

  Anne Rice

  Quiet, Masters, Teach

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

  Frank Chodorov

  Independent, Rights, Government

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Chuchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext for this war was far removed from the cause of it, namely, the subservience of the so-called democratic politicians to their Jewish masters.

  William Joyce

  War, Europe, People

  Broadcast on Radio Cologne, August 30, 1944.

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• In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Running, Differences, Long

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• Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Enlightenment, Principles

  "Education and Democracy". Talk at Michigan State University, March 28, 1995.

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