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Since the beginning, on the dry earth of this measureless land scraped to the bone, a few men ceaselessly made their way, possessing nothing but serving no one, the destitute and free lords of a strange kingdom.
Who ain't a slave? Tell me that.
sold into an indentured servitude
We're all servants. Some to our fellow men. Some to our vices.
How many men
Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
I am the menial, at the beck and squawk of any feathered worthy who wants service.
We all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!
When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.
How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf paid only 25% of his earnings to his feudal lord. How much income tax do you pay?) Don't kid yourselves, we're slaves. Slaves with weekends off.
The world is stuffed full of peasants.
Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.
The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors ... so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.
Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.
My horses are my friends, not my slaves.
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
Servants honor their master by their service.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.
Better to starve free than be a fat slave
Make us your slaves, but feed us.
When you are in debt, then you are a slave.
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
with a cluster of other servants.
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.
Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.
We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
Do you pay me? I feel more like a slave." "Please, you're way cheaper than a slave. You provide your own shelter, pay your own bills." Ever
They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please.
There is a great number of noblemen among you that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labour, on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick.
But peasant's pride is lordling's shame.
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.
Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.
For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army.
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
raiding parties and pirate crews. This is in stark
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.
They are hare-brain'd slaves.
But what makes wage slaves? Wages!
Mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Uplift us to the view.
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.
I'm my characters' galley slave.
Those who serve others will be served.
When you get in debt you become a slave.
For some men to be great, others must be enslaved.
One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.
This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.
From the king
To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
And you must grant, the slavery is less
To study to please one, than many.
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
Slaves. though we be enrolled
Minds are never to be sold.
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?
But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.
Field is the palace of the peasant!
Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
Apparently, what differentiates the mere rich from the filthy rich is a servant who treats you like dirt.
Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
the Poor Men of Lyons,
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians
lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.
We confess that our best service is altogether unprofitable, and when we have rendered our best obedience, we are still merely unworthy slaves who have done no more than that which we ought to do.
Turkey's true master is the peasant.
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.
If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.
I am no man slave.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.
We've got some new ways to make slaves here.
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Praise Him, each savage furious beast
That on His stores do daily feast;
And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
Your weary knees to your Creator bow.
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
Listen: two years ago peasants from some godforsaken
Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat ... hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?
Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
Slaves of wisdom are masters of many.
Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.
We were castoffs and slaves, orphans and unwanteds and used-to-be princesses...and we were mighty.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.
How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.
God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.
Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.
Finance is a slave's word.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.
Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.