Servile Quotes

You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common soil/ Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . . - Edward Everett

Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. - Bible

What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures. - Emile M. Cioran

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. - William Orville Douglas

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold. - William Wordsworth

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named. - William Congreve

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. - Lord Byron

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. - Ralph Waldo Emerson