All 8 Uses of
serf
in
Atlas Shrugged
- If you don't look out, you'll turn into one of those real feudal serfs.†
Chpt 1.1serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- The tax on Colorado, she thought, the tax collected from Ellis Wyatt to pay for the livelihood of those whose job was to tie him and make him unable to live, those who would stand on guard to see that he got no trains, no tank cars, no pipeline of Rearden Metal-Ellis Wyatt, stripped of the right of serf-defense, left without voice, without weapons, and worse: made to be the tool of his own destruction, the supporter of his own destroyers, the provider of their food and of their weapons-Ellis Wyatt being choked, with his own bright energy turned against him as the noose-Ellis Wyatt, who had wanted to tap an unlimited source of shale oil and who spoke of a Second Renaissance......She sat bent†
Chpt 1.10serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- Did you want to see it used by whining rotters who never rouse themselves to any effort, who do not possess the ability of a filing clerk, but demand the income of a company president, who drift from failure to failure and expect you to pay their bills, who hold their wishing as an equivalent of your work and their need as a higher claim to reward than your effort, who demand that you serve them, who demand that it be the aim of your life to serve them, who demand that your strength be the voiceless, rightless, unpaid, unrewarded slave of their impotence, who proclaim that you are born to serfdom by reason of your genius, while they are born to rule by the grace of incompetence, that yours i†
Chpt 2.3serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- I can neither exist without work nor work as a serf.†
Chpt 2.8serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- The "feudal serf" of Taggart Transcontinental was the only one who seemed untouched by the disaster.†
Chpt 2.8
- They knew the stories of abandoned trains, of the crews that vanished in sudden bursts of rebellion against serfdom.†
Chpt 2.10 *serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- I don't want to see you working as their serf!†
Chpt 3.5serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- If you succeed, any man who fails is your master; if you fail, any man who succeeds is your serf.†
Chpt 3.7