Subordination Quotes

54 Subordination quotes by 45 unique authors

The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of… — Robert Jensen
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole… — Beatrice Webb
Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others. — Ayn Rand
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther… — Thomas Carlyle
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates… — Adam Weishaupt
The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge… — Wilhelm Dilthey
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. — George Bernard Shaw
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination. — George Bernard Shaw
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that… — Gloria Steinem
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. — Samuel Johnson
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to… — Max Weber
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things… — Anne Rice
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign… — Judith Butler
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of… — Vladimir Lenin
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to… — Karl Kraus
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the… — Saint Ignatius
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population… — Ellen Willis

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