Servitude Quotes

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality, Nothing, Democracy

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Freedom, Thought

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus

Real, Passion, Century

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul

Death, Live, Liberty

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
Jacque Fresco

Today, Free, Social

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

Brother, Crime, Excuse

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
Ann Landers

Care, Enjoy, Another

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Freedom, Thought, Takes

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

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

Life, Past, Lives

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

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

God, Power, Cannot

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

Slavery, Prove, Families

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

Weak, Scared, Persons

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.
Philip Hone

Country, Strange, Poor

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