Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction. — Letty M. Russell Copy Share Image
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will… — Sam Houston 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
The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme… — Charles Franklin Thwing Copy Share Image
Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who,… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear;… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image