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1. “Raicharan was twelve years old when he came as a servant to his master’s house. He belonged to the same caste as his master and was given his master’s little son to nurse. As time went on the boy left Raicharan’s arms to go to school. From school he went on to college, and after college he entered the judicial service. Always, until he married, Raicharan was his sole attendant.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Servitude, Class, Growth, Relationships, Social Structure
5. “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” Aldous Huxley Totalitarianism, Control, Servitude, Politics, Dystopian Vision, Human Nature
6. “History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.” T.S. Eliot History, Freedom, Servitude, Temporal Perspective, Personal Transformation, Cyclical Nature
10. “Why must a man be always taking on things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn’t dare ask: Master, why this banquet?” Rainer Maria Rilke Burdened Life, Silent Servitude, Questioning Purpose, Burden, Servitude, Purpose
11. “In fact, we have lost touch so badly that we often feel a kind of loathing for genuine ‘living life,’ and hence cannot endure being reminded of it. We’ve reached a point where we virtually regard ‘living life’ as hard labor, almost servitude and we all agree in private that it’s much better ’according to books.” Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Disconnect, Living Struggle, Loathing, Life, Servitude, Reality
Servitude Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “Raicharan was twelve years old when he came as a servant to his master’s house. He belonged to the same caste as his master and was given his master’s little son to nurse. As time went on the boy left Raicharan’s arms to go to school. From school he went on to college, and after college he entered the judicial service. Always, until he married, Raicharan was his sole attendant.”
Rabindranath Tagore Servitude, Class, Growth, Relationships, Social Structure
5. “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
Aldous Huxley Totalitarianism, Control, Servitude, Politics, Dystopian Vision, Human Nature
6. “History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.”
T.S. Eliot History, Freedom, Servitude, Temporal Perspective, Personal Transformation, Cyclical Nature
10. “Why must a man be always taking on things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn’t dare ask: Master, why this banquet?”
Rainer Maria Rilke Burdened Life, Silent Servitude, Questioning Purpose, Burden, Servitude, Purpose
11. “In fact, we have lost touch so badly that we often feel a kind of loathing for genuine ‘living life,’ and hence cannot endure being reminded of it. We’ve reached a point where we virtually regard ‘living life’ as hard labor, almost servitude and we all agree in private that it’s much better ’according to books.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Disconnect, Living Struggle, Loathing, Life, Servitude, Reality
