Masters And Servants Quotes

• Words are good servants but bad masters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Masters, Water And Fire

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• We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

  Charles Hermite

  Mathematics, Masters, Servant

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• Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Money, Riches, Pranayama

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• Everyone is a master and servant.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Servant

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• This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors?

  Herbert Marcuse

  Struggle, Circles, Broken

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 33), 1964.

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• In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

  Vivienne Westwood

  Men, Clothes, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that of teacher and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature of the relationship between father and son, to the extent that officers, especially commanding officers, are responsible for the physical, mental, and moral welfare, as well as the discipline and military training of the young men under their command.

  John A. Lejeune

  Inspirational, Relationship, Teacher

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• Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

  Jay Baer

  Inspirational, Media, Peers

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• The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

  Thomas Tusser

  Loss, Innovation, Moss

  Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”

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