#servitude

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

[...] 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

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

— Georges Bataille

#burdened #condition #crushes #deliberate #free

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

#intelligence #man #organs #servitude

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

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 #escape #first #homes #occasion

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

#passion #real #real passion #servitude #twentieth

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

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

— John Lothrop Motley

#into #many #persons #scared #servitude