#subordination

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. ↗

— Philip Roth

#fond #inordinately #subordination #unless #war

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictatorship #kim-il-sung #north-korea #psychology #subordination

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#anything #besides #bread #determined #eat

Vrijeme se vrti oko nas premda se čini kako smo mi podređeni vrtnjama Vremena. ↗

— Jasna Horvat

#subordination #time #life

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#divine #earthly #element #medieval #notably

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#behind #civilization #culture #disappear #existence

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#existence #experience #facts #human #human world

McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman. He was lucky to keep the job after his 'Seven Days in May' stunt in London last year when he openly lobbied and undercut the president on the surge. But with the latest sassing, and the continued Sisyphean nature of the surge he urged, McChrystal should offer his resignation. He should try subordination for a change. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#friendly-fire #insubordination #london #obama #pat-tillman