Best Subordination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.”

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge

“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.”

People Thinking Way Mean Has Beens Ideas Happens Natural Powerful Trouble Groups Wings Surprising Right Wing Subordinates Subordination

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.”

Thinking Dream Women Wife Influence Conditions Battle Regard Traditional Fancy Ancestor Artificial Scorn Unworthy Undesirable Subordination Valhalla

Book:Selected Letters 1934-1937

Source: Selected Letters 1934-1937

“Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.”

Giving Energy Social Novel Poet Ancient Myth Access Novelists Muse Mystical Homosexual Erotic Stand Alone Emily Great Poet Subordination

Author:Camille Paglia

“The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.”

Humans Ends Existence Sacrifice Morality Laughter Criticism Dancing Property Definitions Following Rejection Consideration Justify Celebration Human Existence Subordination Unmotivated

Author:Georges Bataille

“To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.”

May Self Interest Pleasure Acceptance Divine Willing Advantage Crosses Absolutes Sake Deny Surrender Welfare Conformity Disability Statutes Penance Subordination

Author:George C. Lorimer

“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.”

Doe Form Ability Materials Unique Machines Organization Unity Productions Speed Clarity Goods Expenses Mechanism Documentaries Continuity Discretion Reduction Precision Friction Subordination

Author:Max Weber

“This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.”

Reason Language Elements Negative Organization Importance Critical Vehicle Discourse Rationality Transcendent Unified Coordination Subordination

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.”

Source: The Family: An Historical and Social Study

“The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.”

Philosophy Character Facts Movement Lows Scientist Democratic Dues Contemporary Reverence Scholar Emancipation Subordination Plebeians

Book:Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy

Source: Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy

“The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift from infallibilism to fallibilism has profound consequences not only for toleration, but also for the subordination of faith to reason and theology to philosophy.”

Reason Philosophy Atheism Consequence Profound Positive Atheism Significant Theology Certainty Contribution Criteria Toleration Empiricism Subordination Infallibility

Book:Why Atheism?

Source: Why Atheism?

“Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.”

Way Feels Relation Victim Faults Debt Violent Subordination

Author:David Graeber

“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.”

Sometimes Whole Opportunity House Rooms Views Design Building Garden Architecture Dramatic Epic Maintaining Exhibits Subordination

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.”

Source: Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected by James Prior

“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.”

Generations Taught Accomplished More Time Subordination

Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether

“Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.”

People Humans Lost Human Beings Accepting Watches Forever Growing Creatures Wings Contribution Curtains Subordination Shuffle Adaptable Curtain Call

Author:Rod Serling

“our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.”

Humans May Ideas Government Human Beings Class Share Position Republican Discrimination Perpetual Consistently Excluded Flattered Subordination

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Money confounds subordination.”

Money Subordination

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.”

Pleasure Governing Reciprocal Subordination

Book:Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

Source: Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

“The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors; who substituted in their room a severe subordination of rank and office, from the titled slaves who were seated on the steps of the throne, to the meanest instruments of arbitrary power.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman”

Capitalism Responsible Subordination

Author:Lewis Henry Morgan

“The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.”

Humans Sex Sides Perfect Ought Privilege Improvement Chiefs Disability Replaced Admitting Hindrance Subjection Subordination

Book:JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

Source: JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

“[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.”

Ifs Years Long Helping Seems Government Liberty Atheism Information Habit Positive Atheism Desperate Steady Rope Bark Clergy Subordination Tow

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”

People Country Poor Democracy Rich Subjects Ignorance Argument Profession Persuasion Employed Vulgar Ruling Utility Aristocracy Elitism Subordination

Book:Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”