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Letter "S" » serfs
«Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is nothing wrong in the former while the latter is no doubt a most pernicious thing. The former is man's respect for which is noble and of which the great men are only an embodiment. The latter is the serf's fealty to his lord. The former is consistent with respect, but the latter is a sign of debasement. The former does not take away one's intelligence to think and independence to act. The latter makes one perfect fool. The former involves no disaster to the state. The latter is a source of positive danger to it.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
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Politician)
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Keywords:
admiration,
consistent,
debasement,
disaster,
embodiment,
expressing,
fealty,
hero worship,
involves,
no doubt,
No Hero,
pernicious,
positive thinking,
serf,
serfs,
take away,
The Embodiment,
unbound
«Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.»
«The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
American flag,
American people,
Christendom,
constitute,
flag,
gathered,
goose,
ignominious,
middle ages,
mob,
serf,
serfs,
snivel,
sniveling,
stepper,
steppers,
timorous
«Put me on earth again, and I would rather be a serf in the house of some landless man . . . than king of all these dead men that have done with life.»
«An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.»