248 Quotes About Submission

I am a woman alone in a powerful man’s house. I have no true allies. I will do what I must to survive.”Joran looked almost startled. “You did not want to be his whore?”The word made Nina bristle. “Is that so hard to believe?”“Commander Brum … he would never. He would not force—”“He has no need to resort to force. He prefers a different kind of submission.

Money!...Is like that of a tyranny...From necessity, one must submit to its arbitrary rein...While secretly despising and holding it in absolute contempt and aversion!

I can get on my knees and pray all day, but until my attitude is on its knees nothing will be different once I’m back on my feet.

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

Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted.

It seems to me that our incessant attempts to define God is far more about our desire to humanize Him and far less about our desire to understand Him. And if I persist in my attempts to do the former I will never achieve the latter which leaves me with neither.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.