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“Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.”

Whole Desire Courses Affection Submit Inclination Intervals

Book:Moral Philosophy

Source: Moral Philosophy

“Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.”

Mean Desire Forever Familiar Chiefs Immortality Submit Transforming Freeze Neurosis Rigidity Hold Fast Estrangement Stasis

Book:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.”

Body Action Desire Force Planets Tyranny Aspiration Submit Petty

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.”

Ifs Desire Turns Differences Party Mass Weakness Tasks Tests Institutions Revolutionary Regimes Submit Parliament Anarchist Parliamentary Boycott

Book:History of the Russian Revolution

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.”

Different Desire Built Admire Acknowledge Agendas Cherish Display Submit Timelessness

Author:Dominique Browning

“The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.”

Desire Wish Wife Husband Murder Suicide Commit Submit Intercourse

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.”

Men Want Looks Able Desire Opinion Objects Masters Submit Noblemen

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts