Quotes About Submission

For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.

Ésa es la imagen secreta que tuvo Gustave de Achille-Cléophas: un dios autoritario que leía su alma, una voluntad ante la cual sólo podía rendirse.

The Muslim Brotherhood is not a party of preachers and missionaries but rather of divine enforcers," he wrote. "Its mission is to blot out, by force if necessary, oppression, moral anarchy, social disorder, and exploitation so as to finish the so-called divine role of self-styled gods and replace evil with good. 'Fight them,' the Koran says, 'until there is no more oppression, and all submission is made to God alone.

the first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.

Three facts distinguish a steward: 1) A steward gladly acknowledges that he or she belongs to the Lord.

Hebrews 13:15–17, which says: Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey.

No doubt arrogance will produce submission; and there are men who take other men at the price those other men put upon themselves.

It was his misfortune,—and also his fault,—that he had submitted to be loved by a wild cat.

It is said by many who have had to deal with boys, that certain among them claim and obtain ascendancy by the spirit within them; but I doubt whether the ascendancy is not rather thrust on them than claimed by them. Here again I think the outward gait of the boy goes far towards obtaining for him the submission of his fellows.

was it not all said and done and arranged with reference to his and her own popularity? When a man wants to be Prime Minister he has to submit to vulgarity, and must give up his ambition if the task be too disagreeable to him.

Not so Mrs. Proudie. This lady is habitually authoritative to all, but to her poor husband she is despotic. Successful as has been his career in the eyes of the world, it would seem that in the eyes of his wife he is never right. All hope of defending himself has long passed from him; indeed he rarely even attempts self-justification, and is aware that submission produces the nearest approach to peace which his own house can ever attain.

Truth serves only its slaves.

We can accommodate Mr. Delgado as well. (LaCrosse) 'He'd agreed with polite grace, but he wasn't particularly happy. Someone had him by the short hairs and was braiding them.' (Carlos)

La multitud es un dócil rebaño incapaz de vivir sin amo.

Surely she had never asked God for anything except that He should let her have her will. And every time she had been granted what she asked for—for the most part. Now here she sat with a contrite heart—not because she had sinned against God but because she was unhappy that she had been allowed to follow her will to the road's end.

God help you... You want nothing more from all your prayers and fassting than to force your will on God. Does it surprise you, then, that it has accomplished so little good?

Christ asked for everything he got.

Onder een lantaren stonden zij stil, en uitdagend hief zij het gezicht naar hem op, in trotse houding: de eeuwig stereotiepe stand van de slavin, die, gekeurd op de markt, meesteres weet te zijn over de aanstaande meester. (p.125)

Porque não contestam as mulheres a soberania do macho? Nenhum sujeito se coloca imediata e espontaneamente como não essencial; não é o Outro que, definindo-se como Outro, define o Um; ele é posto como Outro pelo Um definindo-se como Um. Mas para que o Outro não se transforme no Um é preciso que se sujeite a esse ponto de vista alheio. De onde vem essa submissão na mulher?

Sclavul care se supune a ales s? se supun?.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Love consents to everything and commands only those who consent to it. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

L'obéissance à un homme dont l'autorité n'est pas illuminée de légitimité, c'est un cauchemar