Adequate Quote by Mencius

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of…

— Andre Gide

“To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.”

— Dianna Hardy

“Obedience is the performance of a request, but submission comes from the heart.”

— Deborah Smith Pegues

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

— Alexander Hamilton

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will,…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

— Anonymous

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not…

— H. L. Mencken

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

— Samuel Rogers

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although…

— Frederick Douglass

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche