Serfdom In Europe Quotes & Sayings

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete. — Jorge Luis Borges

Life is a series of saying "yes" and "no." The important part is knowing when to say which. — Cole NeSmith

New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always ... Yes, gay is the word ... but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York. — William Dean Howells

Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

1. What more do I need to learn and understand about the situation? 2. What more do I need to learn and understand about the other people in the story? 3. What more do I need to learn and understand about myself? — Brene Brown

24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract. — Will Hutton

Struggles among Roman patricians, plebeians, and slaves produced a version of the chordal triad universalized around a notion of libertas. Different notes of the chord were dominant from the Republic to the Empire. The slave's point of view was made prominent in the figure of Epictetus, one of the few major Roman theorists born a slave. By the Middle Ages, freedom had attained a spiritual dimension but was still linked to the political. With medieval Christendom came the triumph of the sovereignal conception of freedom. That triumph coincided with theocratic societal decadence, the doctrine of heresy, the transformation of mass slavery into the political language of serfdom, and the introduction of the root word Slav to refer to serfs across Europe. Heretics privileged their personal freedom over sovereign orthodoxy. Being burned at the stake was a consequence. — Neil Roberts

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon. — Smokey Robinson

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. — Sigmund Freud

It doesn't matter what you think about consciousness, higher truths, or different dimensions - it's what you do and what you are that counts. — Belsebuub

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. — Lynne Stewart