A deck of cards
A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it. Ely Culbertson
Lackeys
Give us that grand
Give us that grand word ‘woman’ once again, and let’s have done with ‘lady’; one’s a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one’s a word for lackeys. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The enemies of living
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey … Read more
If now, after the
If now, after the collapse, should any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler have the insolence to claim they were merely harmless onlookers, let them feel the scourge of avenging mankind …. Whoever cries about having lost the Nazi system or wants to resurrect National Socialism is to be treated as a lunatic. Friedrich Kellner
If for no other
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy. Frank Chodorov
Thy pride is but
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. Francis Quarles
The English language needs
The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you’re not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and … Read more
We were not talking
We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism. Bobby Seale
I am no proponent
I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran. Ayad Allawi
Life is a charity
Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity’s worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: “Madam and my Master, your … Read more