Subordination Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image “Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Subordination War
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it. — Arleigh Burke Copy Share Image
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary… — Henning von Tresckow Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery .… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
