servility

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Meaning

The quality or state of being servile; servileness.

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

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension. Bernard Crick

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

The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility. Rosa Luxemburg

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. James Madison

Servility increases-already a seemingly unguarded danger to democracy not only in art and architecture and religion but in all phases of life. Frank Lloyd Wright

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