Quotes on Servility

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

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.

I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

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

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.