He who is too servile ruins his back.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save those of the owners, put a term to the arrangement.
It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.
Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.
He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?
