Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. — George Bernard Shaw 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
“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
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
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
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
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination… — Beatrice Webb 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
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination… — George Washington 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
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
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
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast 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
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or… — Andrea Dworkin 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
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 idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house… — William Shenstone 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
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
Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is… — Alexander H. Stephens 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
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image