Word: serfdom
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...This bill is freedom of serfdom for our children," he added, "and it is about time we placed their freedom ahead of those who would overthrow this government by violence, whether that violence is by sword...
Friedrich A. von Hayek, Professor at Chicago University and author of "The Road to Serfdom," said that whereas English law from the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century had been based on treating all citizens alike, it was now based on discrimination among citizens to effect social policies. He decried this trend, illustrating his contentions with quotations ranging from Greek to contemporary English sources...
...fact to the attitude of the present British Socialist government who represent a minority, not a majority, of the British nation. Every Britisher of intelligence is aware that were it not for the courage and generous strength of the U.S., the whole world would be already under the serfdom of Russia . . . The prayers and trigger-fingers of every man who cherishes a hope for the present or a dream for the future are solidly with...
...meets an unhappy woman whose husband bought her "freedom" from serfdom - but also tore her away from her lover, who remains a slave. At the house of a neighbor he watches the owner mercilessly bleed his peasants while affecting the most cultivated French manners. And another time a landowner tells him: "As I see it, the master is the master, and the peasant is the peasant... and that's all there...
...sorties against the social system give Turgenev the opportunity for digging deeply into human motives and habits. The profligate landowners, the simpering clerks, the passionate but suppressed girls whom Turgenev paints are universal types, recognizable in any environment. And some of his best stories have nothing to do with serfdom: The Singers, a rousing account of a singing duel between a peasant and a tradesman which ends in a drunken debauch, and Bezhin Meadow, a tender portrait of a group of boys whom the sportsman meets one evening...