Subjection Quotes

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo

Women, Great, Through

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Ambrose Bierce

Respect, Attitude, Call

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone

Thoughts, Negative, Attitudes

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
Henry A. Wallace

Power, Political, May

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Norman Thomas

Power, Strength, Freedom

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Nature, Truth, Keep

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.
Charles Hodge

Lord, Church, Reasons

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

History, Woman, Nothing

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
Alvaro Uribe

Peace, Justice, Cannot

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
J. M. Roberts

Women, Made, Matter

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Mary Ritter Beard

Men, Mind, Woman

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