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  • Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us. We didn't succumb. As a nation, we stood strong.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.

    Hell   Lackeys   Gates  
    George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363
  • "My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

    Work   Doors   Obstacles  
  • One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

    Horace Mann (1851). “Slavery: Letters and Speeches”, p.387
  • I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

    Song: Wond'ring Again, Album: Living In The Past
  • Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

  • 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 carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

    Life   Eye   Dark  
  • If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

  • You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

    Tea   Stuff   Cups  
    Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2012.
  • I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

    Pride   Vanity   Shame  
  • 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 a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?

  • The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

    Dream   Angel   Soul  
    John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1962). “Milton: Poetry & Prose”
  • The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

  • The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.

    Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.
  • 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.

    Attitude   Pride   Reason  
  • 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.

    "Total Peace: What Makes Wars and how to Organize Peace".
  • 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.

  • Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

    Time   Eternity   Lackeys  
  • 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 (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.602, Delphi Classics
  • 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 or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

    Live Life   Mean   Years  
  • As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men.

    Brother   Party   Men  
  • Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.

    Father   Eye   Doors  
  • 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.

    Avenging   Want   Cry  
  • The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

    Memories   Flower   Keys  
    Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.102, Open Road Media
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