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Quotes About Subordination

and subordinate groups are defined along ethnic and/or racial lines, and where the relationship is established and maintained to serve the interests
~ Peter Pericles Trifonas
Here, I shall take the name of Karl Marx to represent many philosophers from this tendency. Although he may only be a dubious witness for concern with democracy, there can be no doubt of his pioneering role in subordinating the theoretical to the practical life. His work is associated with the fateful incursion of the real into the sphere of theory.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom
~ Peter Ustinov
champ est un réseau de relations objectives (de domination ou de subordination, de complémentarité ou d'antagonisme, etc.)
~ Pierre Bourdieu
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
~ Charles Hermite
No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles
~ Aaron Allston
Kalau tidak ada orang-orang rendahan, tentu tidak ada orang atasan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic literature, the dominance of panegyrics and eulogies as an art form, etc.
~ Rabih Alameddine
People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
~ Dawn Steel
I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
~ Adolf Eichmann
I've never wanted to be the boss.
~ Harrison Ford
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
~ Carine Roitfeld
I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.
~ Jimmy Somerville
But the question made no sense to the bulk of the troops, who regarded instinctive obedience to orders and ready acceptance of subordination within a military hierarchy as infringements on the very liberty they were fighting for. They saw themselves as invincible, not because they were disciplined soldiers like the redcoats but because they were patriotic, liberty-loving men willing to risk their lives for their convictions.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
You may be great to serve under, difficult to serve alongside, but you sure are hell to serve over!
~ Walter Bedell Smith
Authority figures do that to me… Put someone slightly taller than me in a hat and I'll do whatever they ask.
~ Danny Wallace
We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
~ James Buchan
As assistant secretary of the navy, working for seven years under Secretary Josephus Daniels, a former newspaper publisher with long experience in Democratic Party politics, Franklin had to learn for the first and last time in his political career how to operate as a subordinate. The situation proved challenging for the young man, who, despite his unfolding leadership skills, remained deficient in one essential quality—humility.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Where water is boss, the land must obey
~ African Proverb
Equality can only exist between equals. Civilization implies division of labor, division of labor implies subordination and subordination implies injustice and inequality.
~ Ragnar Redbeard
White Punjabis like Nicholson often took a close and continuing interest in a servant or subordinate, but other 'subjects' were usually ignored and no 'subject' was seen as an equal.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Nicholson never brooked the faintest show of insolence towards an officer of the ruling race.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
People used to making decisions sometimes like it when they're told what to do.
~ Randy Wayne White
Since September 11, 2001, however, we can no longer rest comfortably with such domesticated pictures of Jesus. We can no longer ignore the impact of Western imperialism on subordinated peoples and the ways in which peoples whose lives have been invaded sometimes react. The coincidental historical analogy is too disquieting, that is, that the Roman Empire had come to control the ancient Middle East, including Galilee and Judea, where Jesus operated.
~ Richard A. Horsley