Quotes with servility

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

  Noam Chomsky
  American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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• The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

  In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 140

  Bernard Crick
  British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille
  French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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• A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

  Epicurus
  Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• condescension
• possessions
• servility
• sovereign
• servitude
• condition

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