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  • The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  • We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

    Soul   Needs   Body  
    Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.
  • Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

    Quiet   Masters   Teach  
    Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.101, Ballantine Books
  • In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

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  • We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

    Gratitude   Fall   Agency  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.372
  • Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

    Tribune, 1954.
  • Dependence leads to subservience.

  • Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield
  • For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

    "Society in America". Book by Harriet Martineau, 1837.
  • In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'

    Smart   Rap   Men  
    "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.
  • Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

    Love   Peace   Heart  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.152, Courier Corporation
  • The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

    Nature   Power   Men  
    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan
  • Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

  • ...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.

  • They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

    Europe   Britain   Moved  
  • The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."

  • Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

    "Education and Democracy". Talk at Michigan State University, March 28, 1995.
  • Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

  • Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

    "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 281, 1990.
  • If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

    Loss   Men   White Man  
  • Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.

    Crazy   Self   Order  
  • Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.

    Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.19, Vintage
  • Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

    Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1256, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

    Would Be   Pieces   Pay  
    Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
  • The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing.

    Horse   Voice   Joy  
  • Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

  • Chuchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext for this war was far removed from the cause of it, namely, the subservience of the so-called democratic politicians to their Jewish masters.

    War   Europe   People  
    Broadcast on Radio Cologne, August 30, 1944.
  • Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

    Funny   Hilarious   Girly  
    "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.
  • ...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

    R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.166, Verso Books
  • The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

    Art   Half   Painting  
    T. J. Clark (2015). “The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers”, p.78, Princeton University Press
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