Submission Quotes

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

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.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

The only guys I like watching these days are Roger Gracie, Marcelo Garcia, Kron and a few others. Those guys finish and go for submissions. They don't hold the sleeves and stall for ten minutes.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

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

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.

Our submission defines our authority

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works.

Renunciation is submission to time.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

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.

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.

Hope is the leash of submission.