Best Submission Sayings
239 Submission quotes by 209 unique authors
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The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
— Jonathan Mayhew
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A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through…
— Robert Smithson
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The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they…
— Jacque Fresco
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To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
— Aleister Crowley
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Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
— David Platt
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There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is…
— A J Muste
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Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their…
— Gene Sharp
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Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow,…
— Medard Boss
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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous…
— John Milton
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My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won…
— Sidney Greenberg
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Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
— Tom Paulin
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to…
— Goldwin Smith
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole…
— John Walford
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
— Grover Cleveland
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.
— Thomas a Kempis
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In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not…
— Stephen Charnock
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The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
— Thomas Jefferson
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Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.
— Andy Stanley
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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as…
— Ernestine Rose
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Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and…
— Ernestine Rose
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He's a complete fighter. He has some flaws, of course, but he has a good stand up game, good takedowns and a good ground game.…
— Lyoto Machida
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I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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Our challenge is to unselfishly sacrifice all that we have been given, including our will. Elder Neal A. Maxwell rightly said: “The submission of one’s…
— Robert K. Dellenbach
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