Quotes of Servility - somelinesforyou

“ A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs… ”

- Epicurus

“ The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. ”

- Noam Chomsky

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

- Georges Bataille

“ I hate victims who respect their executioners. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness ; the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth — the power to love — although I have put it last, is the rarest. ”

- Margot Asquith
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