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1. If ever the progressive/liberal agenda is implemented in its entirety in this country, we will be well on the way to the „Road to Serfdom," for the first rule of liberalism is that government failure always justifies more government
2. At this point, his survey of imperialism acquainted Jason with some of the most vicious examples, ones that employed slavery beyond serfdom, death camps, genocide and
3. of bureaus and bureaucrats which had nearly returned the once free and independent American farmer to European serfdom
4. demonstrated by the outlawing of serfdom in France at the time of their Revolution
5. The abolition of serfdom in Europe was effective because the son of a serf could
6. Hayek, The Road To Serfdom, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1944 (renewed 1972), pp
7. It was like they were engulfed in the Serfdom of the Manorial system of the Middle-Ages and that their destiny was not their own
8. the subjugated bitch! The chains of serfdom gnawed at my body, created anguish in my mind, but I never had a choice
9. What singular experience, rule, proscription, singularity could there be for a ubiquitous now, except a universal ethic of love that wills a joyful celebration to all that is, wherever it finds itself in the is that it is becoming? Who would call the blessings of cooperatively and sharefully growing a renewing Eartheart work and not play, call it serfdom and not the fortune of creative being? To pick apples in heaven, who would call themselves migrant labor? This is heaven: celebrating the joy you grow
10. When the Indo-Pakistani hunger wars began, it precipitated the collapse of local-minded farms and the eventual takeover of Vermont's agricultural infrastructure, turning the Transition State into the land of Emerald Serfdom
11. The only way for it to escape serfdom is to lead the revolition to radical equality, by freeing all from money
12. This was still a society with the serfdom mentality; the super rich viewed poor folk as nothing more than cattle
13. In addition, the Lanviere family lineage had remained unfettered by the dreaded bonds of serfdom, and so, although modest, they were free
14. The offshoot of this increased level of tool education was that the main form of accruing wealth shifting from conquest to trade: this resulted in a cultural power shift from serfdom to citizenship, from war to business
15. I deserved to have something amazing like her happen after the rough life I’d had, but then hadn’t she had pretty much the same rough life I’d had? Wasn’t she even now still living it? A life of serfdom that I could say I was free of, at least for the time being
16. intolerant mob of ungodly and profane rulers, whose highest ambition was to reduce humanity to a condition of absolute serfdom
17. “During the dark ages, when superstition and tyranny reigned over the better judgments of men, dominating every civil right of liberty, and subduing ever aspiration to advance intellectually, the gospel light was in chaotic blackness, handicapped by an intolerant mob of ungodly and profane rulers, whose highest ambition was to reduce humanity to a condition of absolute serfdom and ignorance, that they might eternally fleece them of their gold and their blood, that they themselves might revel in beastly sensuality and luxury
18. You heard, no doubt, Avdotya Romanovna, when you were with them the story of the servant Philip who died of ill treatment he received six years ago, before the abolition of serfdom
19. He despised the nobility, and believed the mass of the nobility to be secretly in favor of serfdom, and only concealing their views from cowardice
20. ‘It was not, perhaps, of importance in the days of serfdom, and it may not be of importance in England
21. an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted
22. Now by the abolition of serfdom we have been deprived of our authority; and so our husbandry, where it had been raised to a high level, is
23. ‘The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished—there remains nothing but free labor, and its fomms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted
24. The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)
25. The restoration of the kingdom of Poland and the abolition of serfdom were among the pretexts put forward by Napoleon for his invasion of Russia
26. Romanovna, when you were with them the story of the servant Philip who died of ill treatment he received six years ago, before the abolition of serfdom
27. "It was not, perhaps, of importance in the days of serfdom, and it may not be of importance in England
28. The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted agriculturist, who had lived all his life in the country
29. Now by the abolition of serfdom we have been deprived of our authority; and so our husbandry, where it had been raised to a high level, is bound to sink to the most savage primitive condition
30. "The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished—there remains nothing but free labor, and its fomms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted
31. It was in the darkest days of serfdom at the beginning of the century, and long live the Liberator of the People! There was in those days a general of aristocratic connections, the owner of great estates, one of those men—somewhat exceptional, I believe, even then—who, retiring from the service into a life of leisure, are convinced that they've earned absolute power over the lives of their subjects
32. It's simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination—something like a universal serfdom with them as masters—that's all they stand for
33. This playful paragraph finished, of course, with an outburst of generous indignation at the wickedness of parricide and at the lately abolished institution of serfdom
34. They want to put a monument to your Pushkin for writing about women's feet, while I wrote with a moral purpose, and you,’ said he, ‘are an advocate of serfdom
35. It looked as though the gentleman belonged to that class of idle landowners who used to flourish in the times of serfdom
36. He had unmistakably been, at some time, in good and fashionable society, had once had good connections, had possibly preserved them indeed, but, after a gay youth, becoming gradually impoverished on the abolition of serfdom, he had sunk into the position of a poor relation of the best class, wandering from one good old friend to another and received by them for his companionable and accommodating disposition and as being, after all, a gentleman who could be asked to sit down with any one, though, of course, not in a place of honor
37. “Who could tell which of them was to blame, and which was in debt to the other, with their crazy Karamazov way of muddling things so that no one could make head or tail of it?” He attributed the tragic crime to the habits that had become ingrained by ages of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia, due to the lack of appropriate institutions
38. There were even two or three outbreaks of applause when he spoke of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia
39. The whole effect on the public, of Rakitin's speech, of his noble sentiments, of his attacks upon serfdom and the political disorder of Russia, was this time finally ruined
40. It may safely be said that the manager of the Chateau des Fleurs (lucky man!) pocketed at least a third of the money paid by Russian peasants to their lords in the days of serfdom
41. "Ladies and gentlemen! Twenty years ago, on the eve of war with half Europe, Russia was regarded as an ideal country by officials of all ranks! Literature was in the service of the censorship; military drill was all that was taught at the universities; the troops were trained like a ballet, and the peasants paid the taxes and were mute under the lash of serfdom
42. Twenty years have passed since the abolition of serfdom, and no one has taken the trouble to strike out the phrase which, in connection with the commandment of God to honor parents, was introduced into the catechism to sustain and justify slavery
43. Simeon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, a stupefied, ignorant, unprincipled man, who had not even any religion
44. “They twist us into ropes, worse than during serfdom
45. Simon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, stupid, without education, and even without religion
46. Often, while comparing the position of the landlord with that of the owner of serfs, Nekhludoff found a parallel in the renting of the land to the peasants, instead of working it by hired labor, to what the slave-owners did when they substituted tenancy for serfdom
47. 17) Besides the fact that the most gifted of the people were won over by bribes into the camp of the parasites, the cause of the destruction of popular poetry and music were: at first the serfdom of the people and later the most important one—printing
48. If a Roman, or a man of the Middle Ages, or a Russian, such a man as I can remember fifty years ago, believed implicitly that the existing violence of authority was needed to save him from evil,—that taxes, duties, serfdom, prisons, the lash, the knout, galleys, executions, military conscription, and wars were unavoidable,—it would be difficult to find a man at the present time who believes that all the violences committed saves a single man from evil; on the contrary, not one could be found who had not a distinct assurance that most of the violations to which he is subjected, and in which he himself participates, are in themselves a great and unprofitable calamity
49. To say that money does not create bondage, is the same as to have asserted, fifty years ago, that serfdom did not create slavery
50. Can we not see the changes which public opinion is now preparing? Twenty-five years ago it sufficed to destroy the snare which justified serfdom, and public opinion changed its attitude as to what is praiseworthy, and what is shameful, and life changed
