#servitude

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#into #man #out #servitude #takes

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

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

#adds #brother #crime #does #excuse

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#self-hatred #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

#absolute power #approve #assuming #cannot #fellow-men

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

#democracy #difference #equality #liberty #nothing

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

#prefer #self-government #servitude #tranquility

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

The vampire Dimitri calmly looked up at Reese and smiled. “Commander, everything gets easier over time,” he answered. “Especially if you have all the time that there is. And I do. As a human, you live such a short span of time that you do not learn that life is a continuous battle with one enemy—and that compromise is the only way to ultimately win. Those that do not understand this and think they can control everything; fall to the death of illusion. ↗

— Tony Ruggiero

#death