servility quotes

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

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

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.