Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America. . . War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr. , C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs. ]
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.
