Quotes of Subjection - somelinesforyou

“ A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. ”

- George Eliot

“ Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. ”

- Marianne Moore

“ We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free. ”

- Cicero

“ Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ”

- David Garrick

“ Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor. ”

- Ricardo Montalban

“ Work without love is slavery. ”

- Harold Ross

“ Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. ”

- John Ray

“ Bondage is...subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. ”

- Bible

“ He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ This war is not about slavery. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.). ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay, We must worship its light though it is not our own, For liberty burst in its ray. Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard By a freeman, and thrill not his breast? Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word, As a Bethlehem Star of the West? ”

- Eliza Cook

“ If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love. ”

- Amy Carmichael

“ Man is the only creature which rises by bowing, for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker. ”

- Unknown

“ The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. ”

- George Eliot

“ The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ”

- Guillaume Apollinaire

“ 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

“ 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

“ Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ A great fortune is a great slavery. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ A great fortune is a great slavery. ”

- Seneca

“ Debt is the slavery of the free. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ”

- Cyril Connolly
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