Subservient Quotes

• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

  Anthony de Mello

  Kings, Bread, Philosopher

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.86, Image

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• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

  Felix Adler

  Freedom, Long, Church

  FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

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• What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.

  Muriel Barbery

  Writing, Heart, Pieces

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• Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Long

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• Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Speech, Spokes, Candor

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• Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Ethnicity, Color

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• The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

  Michael Caine

  Powerful, Communication, People

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• Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

  Stefan Zweig

  Leadership, Powerful, Fall

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• Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.

  Jon Hamm

  Powerful, Book, Kids

  "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" By David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

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• All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Color, Sake

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.96, Hackett Publishing

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• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, School, Self Confidence

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• Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

  Xenocrates

  Excellence, Possession

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• It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Enlightened, Theory

  Felix Adler (1904). “New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies”

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• Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, What Matters, Self

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.195, Grove Press

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• Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)

  Laura Schlessinger

  Husband, Pigs, Wife

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “Woman Power: Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!

  Muriel Lester

  Bullying, People, Suggestions

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Long

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• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Men, Editors

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• I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

  Max Roach

  Roles, Resentment, Drummer

  "Max Roach, Master of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.

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• Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Brain, Becoming

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• We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Powerful, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

  Tom Morello

  Jobs, Exercise, Land

  "Modern Happiness: Springsteen and the American Dream" by Craig Werner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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• To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative.

  Leo Strauss

  Character, Fate, Two

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

  Margaret Atwood

  Prayer, Would Be, Puppets

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