Top 19 Quotes About Serfdom
#1. The Neo-Feudalism of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is reviving serfdom as the condition of the future. If you let it.
Rosa Koire
#2. North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#3. It was unthinkable to sell land, was to sell communal privileges or commute labor services and bonds of serfdom for a money rent.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#4. The publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .
E. J. Dionne
#5. Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.
Paul Samuelson
#6. Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is the same in all cases - less government.
Herbert Spencer
#8. It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.
Milton Friedman
#9. This remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.
Ludwig Von Mises
#10. But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.
Edward Jenks
#11. Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription.
T.H. White
#12. We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.
Eleanor Smeal
#13. -I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
William Golding
#14. Sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
Emma Donoghue
#17. This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. Clarke
#18. The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.
Pauline Marois
#19. Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
Carlos Castaneda
