#servitude

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


John Lothrop Motley


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By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference. I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by, because a tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distateful to him. I was so fully aware that only serious moods and occupations were acceptable, that in his presence every effort to sustain or follow any other became vain: I fell under a freezing spell. When he said 'go', I went; 'come', I came; 'do this', I dit it. But I did not love my servitude [...].


Charlotte Brontë


#servitude #love

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


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[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.


Charlotte Brontë


#faculties #servitude #nature

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


#access #advanced #capabilities #could #create

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.


Aldous Huxley


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You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!


George Carlin


#ignorance #patriotism #servitude #stupidity #dreams

Those who nuts are cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be HUMBLE.


Benneh Ozil Effah


#humble #life #servitude #life

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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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


#cause #conceived #conscription #death #ever