“Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”
“It is a society in which the subservient appearance observed among us is dangerously deceptive. The occasional warning sign the dam is about to burst is most often ignored by our keepers.”
“I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.”
“The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.”
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
“Dignity, always Dignity!”