The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.