Quotes about Slavish

O imitators, you slavish herd! Votes: 2

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. Votes: 2

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. Votes: 2

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. Votes: 2

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. Votes: 2

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. Votes: 2

God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends. Votes: 2

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined. Votes: 2

My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling. Votes: 2

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. Votes: 2

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. Votes: 2

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy - above all, the war in Iraq. During the Cold War, the Wilson government resisted the suggestion that it should send troops to Vietnam. Votes: 2

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. Votes: 0

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind Votes: 0

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious]. Votes: 0

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. Votes: 0

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. Votes: 0

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, Votes: 0

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.] Votes: 0

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. Votes: 0

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. Votes: 0

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law. Votes: 0

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. Votes: 0

Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck. Votes: 0

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave. Votes: 0

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. Votes: 0

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it. Votes: 0

Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence. Votes: 0

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason. Votes: 0

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. Votes: 0

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish. Votes: 0