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• Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Creativity, Men

  "Points of Rebellion". Book by William O. Douglas, 1970.

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• We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

  Rich Mullins

  Running, Ideas, People

  Seminar at LeSEA Broadcasting Studios in South Bend, Indiana, February 1993.

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• I don't walk into a room with an authoritative stance. I tend to be a little more submissive, even though I think I have a certain amount of strength. So, it's tough for me to play authority without feeling uncomfortable.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Thinking, Play, Feelings

  "Kristin Kreuk Talks The CW’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Receiving a Note from Linda Hamilton, SMALLVILLE and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Thinking, Example, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

  Trevor Treharne

  Atheist, May, Reverence

  Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.262, Universal-Publishers

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• Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.

  Francois Fenelon

  Peace, Pain, Spring

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• If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

  Emma Watson

  Men, Order, Accepted

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.

  Marilyn French

  Expression, People, Kitchen

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

  Ernst Rohm

  People, Want, Dread

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• My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

  Regina King

  Play, Personality, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

  Rooney Mara

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "'Girl with the dragon tattoo' star Rooney Mara talks Nude Poster" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2011.

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• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Ignorance, Army, Suffering

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• I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Beats, Fortune, Coerce

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• Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.

  Roy H. Williams

  Turn The Other Cheek, Cheeks

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• The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Moving, Offers, Pencils

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

  Warren Jeffs

  Children, Husband, Men

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• A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Evil, Heaven

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.300, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Sacrifice, Effort

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.39, Aeterna Press

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• I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd love to see a memoir by a submissive man, because we've seen one from a professional submissive and dommes and strippers and hookers. I'd love to see more men writing frankly, not jokingly, about sex.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Sex, Writing, Men

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Punishment, Soldier

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

  Laura Nyro

  Thinking, Space, Waiting

  Song: The Right to Vote, Album: Mother's Spiritual

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Loss, Forever

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'

  Michele Bachmann

  Husband, Hate, Law

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2011.

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