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Servitude Quotes

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

Fritz Leiber
Warm, Chilly, Servitude
Fritz Leiber (2014). “Swords in the Mist”, p.7, Open Road Media

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

Seneca the Younger
Servitude

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

Luc de Clapiers
People, Degrade, Servitude

This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

John Milton
Unwise, Servitude
John Milton, David Masson (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.277

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

Seneca the Younger
Masters, Ashamed, Servitude
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 699, Troades, 989, 1922.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

Luc de Clapiers
Men, Ends, Servitude

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

Seneca the Younger
Oneself, Servitude

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

John Milton
Thee, Unwise, Servitude
1665 Abdiel to Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.178-81.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Caryl Rivers
Freedom, Complicated, Servitude
Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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