Submission Quotes
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We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the submission of Slaves.
george mason— Letter to a member of the Brent family (6 December 1770)
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods . Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
— Line 1347, closing lines
DeMaistre and Bonald … wanted to teach men submission, to give them the religion of established power, to substitute, in Bonald’s phrase, “the evidence of authority for the authority of evidence.”
alain finkielkraut— p. 22 (The Undoing of Thought (1988))
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.
David Hume— Part X - With regard to courage or abasement
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.
David Hume— David Hume, The Natural History of Religion (1757), Part X - "With regard to courage r abasement".
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
calvin coolidge— The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses, Coolidge, The Minerva Group (2001), p. 159
— Acceptance of the Memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant (27 April 1922)
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared "that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow".
ralph waldo emerson— Social Aims
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
alan hirsch— p. 80 (The Faith of Leap (2011))
The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.
junius— No. 1 (January 21, 1769)
Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.
edward norris kirk— P. 258. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
saki— The Achievement of the Cat
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles— Line 1347, closing lines
There is an immeasurable distance between submission to the cross and acceptance of it.
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 170.
Obedience, submission, discipline, courage — these are among the characteristics which make a man.
— Samuel Smiles, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 404.
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one’s self became reluctance to assert one’s self, became forgiveness, love of one’s enemies. Misery became a distinction.
georg brandes— An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889, pg. 31-32)
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.
herbert marcuse— p. 75 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.
albert jay nock— p. 314 (Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943))
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
camille paglia— Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990, pg. 267)
The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me that when one speaks to you of unbelievers who are in affliction and accept their affliction as a part of the order of the world, it does not impress you in the same way as if it were a question of Christians and of submission to the will of God. Yet it is the same thing.
— Simone Weil, Last letter to Father Joseph-Marie Perrin, from a refugee camp in Casablanca (26 May 1942), as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 111.
The veil can be erotic but in a political context it is not; it is a kind of seal on property, a mark of submission.
— "Two Views of the Veil". PrintCulture. June 21, 2006.
Ev'n so, with all submission, I * * * * * Send you each year a homely letter, Who may return me much a better.
Matthew Prior— Matthew Prior, Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd, line 23.
The pope understands this eternal truth: Societies cannot endure for long without a belief in God and a submission to His will. We are ignoring him at our peril.
— Jeffrey T. Kuhner, real conservative vision,"Washington Times", August 9, 2009
Ali: 85 If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost (All spiritual good). Pickthall: 85 And whoso seeketh as religion other than the Surrender (to Allah) it will not be accepted from him, and he will be a loser in the Hereafter.
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— The Qur'an (?), Sura 3:85 (The Family of Amran, ?)
Many people, no doubt, honestly believe that they are only giving away the interests of Czechoslovakia, whereas I fear we shall find that we have deeply compromised, and perhaps fatally endangered, the safety and even the independence of Great Britain and France.... I foresee and foretell that the policy of submission will carry with it restrictions upon the freedom of speech and debate in Parliament, on public platforms, and discussions in the Press.
— Winston Churchill, speech in Parliament attacking Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler.[ ]
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, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.
james freeman clarke— P. 202. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
In Islam the Prophetic tradition or Sunnah which can also be called as Tao of Islam, literally meaning Way to Divine submission , includes abundance of solitude , contemplation and adoration of the Divine.
— In The Practice of Solitude in Islamic Tradition
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, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.
— James Freeman Clarke, p. 202. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
