Quotes About Being Subservient

#1. I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

Jack Kirby

#2. It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

Noam Chomsky

#3. Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved.

Victoria Hislop

#4. Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Jeremy Taylor

#5. If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

Caitlin Moran

#6. I think the day handwriting disappears for good is the day humanity is really and truly fucked.

C.M. Stunich

#7. And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Being of service does not mean we are less than or subservient to anyone or anything. It's a way of being that invites grace and abundance in our daily lives. Being of service means giving to others without expecting anything back.

Zeina Smidi

#9. By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a 'child', of being wholly
subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good

John Holt

#10. We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

Isaac Newton

#11. Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

Steven Biko

#12. These are the effects of doting age,
vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

John Dryden

#13. In the service of statist sameness, the male-vs.-female biological imperatives are rapidly, if reflexively, being dissolved. Dissolving 'The Constitution of Man' is dangerous to civilization, for a subservient, effete civilization will not survive the onslaught of Islam.

Ilana Mercer

#14. Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.

Tehmina Durrani

#15. There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.

Kent Conrad

#16. Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. In their eyes I see you, Alexander
I see you every time

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#18. I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

Charles Mingus

#19. The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

Mamphela Ramphele

#20. Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient, passive and subservient.

Bryant McGill