Subjection Quotes
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A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.
William Prynne -
The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.
William Gilmore Simms
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Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered.
Amilcar Cabral -
Censorship places us all in subjection, just as under despotism we are all equal … that kind of freedom of the press acts to introduce oligarchy into questions of the spirit. … That [kind of] freedom of the press pushes presumptuousness to the point of forestalling world history, substituting itself for the voice of the people. …
Hal Draper -
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
George Eliot