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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

Responsibility Authority Sense Most

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

Freedom War Path Never

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

Freedom Path Never Choose

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

Respect Opinion Prison Tyranny

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Bertrand Russell

Thoughts Desires Our Indignation

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Charles Spurgeon

Think Thanksgiving Live Better

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love Me Man Real

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

People Problem Choice Everything

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

Peace Power Government Evil

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

George III of the United Kingdom

Mother Country Will Only

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Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

Marquis de Lafayette

Love You People Friends

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Oppression Rise Give Invincible

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Life Strength True Devotion

The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.

Time Weakness Us Behave

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

John C. Calhoun

Political Down Will Left

I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.

Toussaint Louverture

Mother Respect You Government

Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than any other children, though of a condition inferior to his own.

Age Children Own More

I believe in creating ideas that consumers actually want to engage in, creating movements with our thinking and not bombarding them into submission.

Believe Thinking Ideas Want

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Oppression Learn May Come

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Eldridge Cleaver

People Great Self-Respect Honor

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Margaret Sanger

Love Marriage Woman Body

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

Peace Religion Islam Means

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Angelina Grimke

Power Blind Place Obedience

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

Peace Secured Slavish

If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I'd show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.

Colby Covington

Change Me Lucky How

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

Communication Man May Him

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