Best Submission Quotations
239 Submission quotes by 209 unique authors
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Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our…
— Emma Goldman
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The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience…
— Arthur Koestler
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
— Samuel Smiles
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Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven,…
— James Freeman Clarke
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The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request,…
— Colin Jordan
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The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the…
— Michel Onfray
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Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.
— K.P. Yohannan
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There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden…
— Eleanor Perenyi
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Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature…
— Russell Kirk
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Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever…
— Emma Goldman
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The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it…
— Emma Goldman
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
— Karl Marx
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Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.
— Myles Munroe
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Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.
— Beth Moore
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How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen.…
— Pachomius the Great
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Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Hope is the leash of submission.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Why, in our culture, do so many discussions of male/female roles seem so painful, unfair, unreal, unfunny, and even preposterous? Because of men who demand…
— Stu Weber
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To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!
— C. B. Cebulski
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