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Quotes About Subordinate

As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background.
~ Poo Bear
the security of every other nation in the world be subordinate to the comfort of the United States
~ Toni Morrison
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
~ Georges Bataille
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.
~ Edward Grey
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
~ Patricia Hill Collins
The implied responsibility placed upon the officer's shoulders by the subordinate's unhesitating willingness to follow orders is a withering burden to any officer with half a brain, and Shaftoe has more than once seen seasoned noncoms reduce green lieutenants to quivering blobs simply by standing before them and agreeing, cheerfully, to carry out their orders.
~ Neal Stephenson
Politics would, in the late stages of capitalism, become subordinate to economics, leading to political parties hollowed out of any real political content and abjectly subservient to the dictates of corporations.
~ Chris Hedges
The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.
~ Christopher Moore
working under him made him feel less
~ Kyle Mills
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is subordinate to certain absolute values; there is no delight in the human form leading to its natural reproduction; it is always distorted to fit the more abstract forms which convey intense religious emotion.
~ Colin Wilson
the Jesus of this passage refers to his (pre-incarnate) sharing in divine glory (17:5, 24) and speaks of himself and the "Father" as co-inhering such that they are "one" (17:21). But the prayer form of John 17 makes it clear that Jesus and "God" are also distinguishable and that Jesus is subordinate and subservient to the purposes of "God." One of the repeated claims in the passage is that Jesus has been sent forth by "God" (17:8, 18, 21, 23, 25).
~ Larry W. Hurtado
use of the word high is revealing. In Britain, high treason involved a crime against the Crown—as distinguished from petit treason, the betrayal of a superior by a subordinate. The Framers knew this and deliberately chose to incorporate the word high as a limitation on impeachable offenses.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
La competencia de un empleado no es determinada por los extraños, sino por su superior en la jerarquía.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Every human being and every society is what it is by virtue of the highest to which it looks up. The city, if it is healthy, looks up, not to the laws which it can unmake as it made them, but to the unwritten laws, the divine law, the gods of the city. The city must transcend itself. ...the most important consideration concerns that which transcends the city or which is higher than the city; it does not concern things which are simply subordinate to the city.
~ Leo Strauss
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
~ David Lindsay-Abaire
La culpa es de mi jefe".
~ Timothy Ferriss
The Great Terror took place during a state of exception that required all policemen to subordinate themselves to the NKVD and its special tasks.
~ Timothy Snyder
I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
~ China Mieville
We know the breath-taking joy of his sisters when the word spread: He is risen! But a man who has lived a full life will have others to reckon with beside his sisters. Certainly that keen-eyed subordinate who has moved up to his table at the office, for him resurrection is an awful embarrassment.
~ Chinua Achebe
It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.
~ HELEN DENDY BOSANQUET
In the realm of aesthetics, reason is always subordinate to perception.
~ Leonard Koren
There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
As far as 'Venom,' we took some license with this because I don't think we know a lot about him from his days on planet Klyntar in the comic. But in our movie we thought maybe he could also be somebody who's a little bit of a loser, a loner, and doesn't love being subordinate.
~ Ruben Fleischer