Subjected Quotes
166 Subjected quotes by 144 unique authors
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The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to…
— Raymond Queneau
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Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined…
— Alice Miller
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The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters…
— Jacques Vallee
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Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and…
— Robert Moss
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Romans says the creation was 'subjected to frustration, in hope that it will be liberated from its bondage to decay.' In hope! There is hope…
— Unknown Author
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of…
— Octavio Paz
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Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men…
— Martin Luther
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The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... no one…
— William Penn
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All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make…
— Sue Grafton
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There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine…
— Alan Turing
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The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is…
— Ivan Pavlov
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The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to…
— Erich Auerbach
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have…
— Andrew Jackson
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When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to…
— Eric Holder
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Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and…
— E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating…
— Mireille Guiliano
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Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient…
— Jacques Ellul
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Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans…
— Mitch McConnell
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Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule…
— Unknown Author
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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as…
— Richard Francis Burton
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A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he…
— Alexander Lowen
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It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
— Umberto Eco
Who Wrote These Subjected Quotes
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