Servility quotes

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. Mahatma Gandhi
(also about
Denial)
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. George Gordon Byron
(also about
Nationalism, America)
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. Niccolo Machiavelli
(also about
Truth, Trust, Hypocrisy)
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. Paulo Coelho
(also about
Delusion, Humility)
There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities. Moliere
(also about
Society, Hypocrisy, Flattery)

Servility quotes by Stendhal

Also about
Ambition, Society, Stupidity, Mediocrity
If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured. The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. Percy Bysshe Shelley
(also about
War, Murder, Sin, Soldiers, Nonviolence)
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom Gustave Flaubert
(also about
Freedom, Art, Manners, Obedience, Faith)