Subjection Quotes
63 quotes by 53 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.
— John Dod
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
— Jane Austen
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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...
— Benjamin Tucker
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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
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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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