Quotes About Submission

he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.

Oppression and the forcing of submission do not begin in the office, factory, or political party; they begin in the very first weeks of an infant's life. Afterward they are repressed and are then, because of their very nature, inaccessible to argument. Nothing changes in the character of submission or dependency, when it is only their object that is changed.

People brought up cruelly (and unfortunately that is still the majority) willingly submit to dictators and cheer them on when they supply them with an enemy they can execrate.

They would be displeased to have anybody call them docile, yet in a way they are. They submit themselves to manly behaviour. They submit themselves to manly behaviour with all its risks and cruelties, its complicated burdens and deliberate frauds. Its rules, which in some cases you benefited from, as a woman, and then some that you didn't.

All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58)

I'm getting tired of Harpo, she say. All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.

Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)

And you are the girl's bitch, forever.

Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

Madam, I pray you, be governed by me, or some other wise person. With respect, you are a woman and in need of masculine guidance.

Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

I will not submit unheard. There may be powers that are not malignant travelling this accursed road. I shall leave them a record and an appeal.

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.

Unity and respect, it seemed, were only for those who did as they were told.

Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

Fear was born of arrogance. Of a belief that everything was not the will of God, and could be changed.

The vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.' The

A man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.

Los puritanos quedarían espantados ante la actual tendencia de la evangelización moderna que pretende meramente rescatar a los pecadores del infierno pero posterga la sumisión de estos al señorío soberano de Cristo para más tarde.

You can, instead of trying to use God or make God your servant, submit yourself to God; be God's child, God's instrument through which God's glory is made manifest on earth. Then, let God's glory flow through you. It will never be your glory, regardless of how beautiful you are or become, or how worthy or worthwhile.

I'll say this one more time. I will be gentle. I will be slow. But you don't have the reins.