Quotes about Servitude

If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, and by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.