“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.” — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will... — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. — Roscoe Pound Copy Share Image
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
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