#subjection

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #child #darkness #degradation #great

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#faults #forefathers #freedom #given #loved

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#church #conclusion #contribution #elements #hostile

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

#because #call #compelled #majority #our

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

#degradation #found #fully #grand #history

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#bondage #external #influences #internal #negative

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I (God [knows]) would without hesitation precede or follow thee to the Vulcanian fires according to thy word. For not with me was my heart, but with thee. But now, more than ever, if it be not with thee, it is nowhere. For without thee it cannot anywhere exist. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#celibacy #convent #dignity #following #grief

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #discord #disharmony #empowerment #gender

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#nature #plastic #purity #subjection #truth

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#brethren #church #his #lord #particular