Quotes About Subordination

Be you never so high, the law is above you.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.

We are either kings or pawns of men

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

For one of the toxic things about Lineages was that rich avout could get not-so-rich ones to do things for them in exchange for better food, better drink, and better lodging.

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.

To be master or servant within an hour, this is the course of temporal power.

The politicians and generals and kings lived in the limelight and enjoyed the glory, while the men of money stayed in the background and gave the orders, politely when possible, but making sure they would be obeyed.

he had done nothing wrong; there had always been others above him; he had never done anything but obey orders; he had never hurt a single human being.

stimulation, where all is subordinated to the one aim of centering the whole attention of body and soul upon God, in the sense that the world is sought and known in the beauty of God, not God in the beauty of the world.

how small he was and how wormy in manner

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young persons must not only be furnished with knowledge, but they must be accustomed to subordination and subjected to the authority and influence of good principles. It will avail little that youths are made to understand truth and correct principles, unless they are accustomed to submit to be governed by them.

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos.

Mr Chubb did not so much mind his subordinates being impertinent–that was, after all, a form of acknowledging inferiority; what he dreaded was that any of them might say something really funny without his recognising it.

Above all others, that was the lesson that had been beaten into her. Follow orders. You are nothing. A machine cog that either performs its function or is torn out and replaced.