In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst…

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“In addition to selecting for infantile physical features in many of our pet breeds, we have carefully cultivated an infant-like dependency in many of…

— Charles Danten

Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as…

— V. Raymond Edman

While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others,…

— John Ross Macduff

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;

— Marquis de Sade

He who doesn't dream doesn't do anything else than sleep...even when he is awaken.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

— Anne Desclos

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and…

— Simone Weil

“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in…

— Noam Chomsky

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother,…

— Beyonce Knowles

Life is a scam, It behaves like a beautiful girl, and lead us to the hell. Bring modesty, submissiveness, and piety in your lives.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what you like,…

— Robert C. Solomon