For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have… — Tomochichi Copy Share Image
Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to… — Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Copy Share Image
A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact… They cultivate hate and distrust of both… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth,… — William James Copy Share Image
Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image