Quotes about Submission

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Votes: 6

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God Votes: 6

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. Votes: 6

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. Votes: 6

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Votes: 6

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Votes: 6

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience. Votes: 4

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it. Votes: 4

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. Votes: 4

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice Votes: 4

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government Votes: 4

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls. Votes: 4

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. Votes: 4

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. Votes: 4

The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity. Votes: 4

Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. Votes: 4

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially. Votes: 4

Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow. Votes: 4

For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves, both of which, by relieving some classes from the perpetual struggle for a bare subsistence, afford them an opportunity of devoting themselves to that disinterested pursuit of knowledge which is the noblest and most powerful instrument to ameliorate the lot of man. Votes: 4

Submission to God is praying with your knees bow. Votes: 3

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission Votes: 3

Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths. Votes: 3

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves. Votes: 3

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life. Votes: 3

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. Votes: 3

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. Votes: 3

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. Votes: 3

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. Votes: 3

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' Votes: 3

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. Votes: 3

While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated. Votes: 3

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. Votes: 3

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. Votes: 3

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. Votes: 2

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. Votes: 2

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. Votes: 2

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. Votes: 2

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband. Votes: 2

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. Votes: 2

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. Votes: 2

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. Votes: 2

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form. Votes: 2

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. Votes: 2

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission. Votes: 2

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. Votes: 2

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Votes: 2

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. Votes: 2

We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased. Votes: 2

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan. Votes: 2

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice. Votes: 2

We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living fully within the mainstream of grace, under the mantle of God's divine authority, and by uniting ourselves to the obedience of Christ on the cross, we participate in the reversal of Adam's sin. Votes: 2

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God. Votes: 2

Renunciation is submission to time. Votes: 0

Our submission defines our authority Votes: 0

Hope is the leash of submission. Votes: 0

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission. Votes: 0

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray. Votes: 0

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. Votes: 0

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. Votes: 0

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil. Votes: 0

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man. Votes: 0

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. Votes: 0

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission. Votes: 0

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission. Votes: 0

I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me." Votes: 0

The level of our submission to God will determine our success and prosperity. Votes: 0

The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake. Votes: 0

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission. Votes: 0

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. Votes: 0

My malady was submission.The symptom: my compliance.The antidote was loud clear boundaries. Votes: 0

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission. Votes: 0

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. Votes: 0

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission. Votes: 0

Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is. Votes: 0

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I'm just the one to teach them. Votes: 0

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior! Votes: 0

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission. Votes: 0

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity. Votes: 0

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. Votes: 0

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. Votes: 0

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards." Votes: 0

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. Votes: 0

It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission. Votes: 0

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. Votes: 0

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. Votes: 0

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God! Votes: 0

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you. Votes: 0

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact. Votes: 0

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission? Votes: 0

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? Votes: 0

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission. Votes: 0

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We. Votes: 0

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission. Votes: 0

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. Votes: 0

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. Votes: 0

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. Votes: 0

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! Votes: 0

A karate black belt would make a great blindfold on a kidnap victim, after you karate chop them into submission. Votes: 0

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun. Votes: 0

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille Votes: 0

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. Votes: 0

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. Votes: 0

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born. Votes: 0

...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God. Votes: 0

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life. Votes: 0

Can't you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I'd fry my brain trying. (Sphinx) Votes: 0

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. Votes: 0

Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. Votes: 0

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism ... Votes: 0

When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission. Votes: 0

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. Votes: 0

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. Votes: 0

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church." Votes: 0

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone. Votes: 0

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. Votes: 0

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God. Votes: 0

Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing. Votes: 0

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission. Votes: 0

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility Votes: 0

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission. Votes: 0

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility. Votes: 0

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God. Votes: 0

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name. Votes: 0

Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will. Votes: 0

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator. Votes: 0

I married a man who isn't afraid to wash a dish, scrub a toilet, or have his unibrow waxed into submission by a licensed professional. Votes: 0

Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41). Votes: 0

I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works. Votes: 0

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise. Votes: 0

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge. Votes: 0

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. Votes: 0

Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. Votes: 0

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul. Votes: 0

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. Votes: 0

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority. Votes: 0

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made. Votes: 0

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals. Votes: 0

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. Votes: 0

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan. Votes: 0

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission. Votes: 0

Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try. Votes: 0

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. Votes: 0

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware. Votes: 0

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams. Votes: 0

Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him. Votes: 0

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. Votes: 0

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression. Votes: 0

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. Votes: 0

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission. Votes: 0

Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission. Votes: 0

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. Votes: 0

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. Votes: 0

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. Votes: 0

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission. Votes: 0

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part. Votes: 0

I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. Votes: 0

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols. Votes: 0

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home. Votes: 0

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. Votes: 0

Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore? Votes: 0

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Votes: 0

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission? Votes: 0

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason. Votes: 0

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with. Votes: 0

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. Votes: 0

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy. Votes: 0

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women. Votes: 0

Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements. Votes: 0

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission. Votes: 0

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission. Votes: 0

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others. Votes: 0

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge. Votes: 0