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

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Epicurus |

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Margot Asquith |

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Georges Bataille |

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

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Noam Chomsky |