Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers."
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Submission
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist, Author
"I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form."
Rory Miller
Author
"It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission."
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd."
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"I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated"
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"Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires."
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"It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission."
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"Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it."
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"You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity."
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"Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with."
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"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly."
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"Renunciation is submission to time."
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"Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil."
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"So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them."
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"They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission."
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