Subjection Quotes

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. — Ambrose Bierce
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead… — Pearl S. Buck
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence… — Vladimir Lenin
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her… — John Calvin
The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection. — John Dod
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What… — William Shakespeare
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing… — George Eliot
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in… — Charles Hodge
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say,… — Jeremy Bentham
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. — Mary Ritter Beard
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. — Guillaume Apollinaire
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.… — Henry A. Wallace
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. — Jane Austen
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will... — Benjamin Tucker
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield… — Jonathan Mayhew
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose… — Howard Thurman

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