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“... in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience;”

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired…

— Charlotte Brontë

“so willing to engage in whatever it took to secure what he felt he deserved.”

— Kate Danley

“If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn’t give him power.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.”

— Paul Bowles

“If you would command anything, be willing to cause anything.”

— Melissa McPhail

“Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I wanted only to try to live in obedience to the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”

— Hermann Hesse

“He call us to obey, not because He needs us but because He knows we need Him.”

— John MacArthur

“Verily We have created Man into toil and struggle. Thinketh he, that none hath power over him?”

— Al Balad

“If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.”

— Walter Lippmann

“He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.”

— Origen