Giacomo Casanova Quotes

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Every role is a new form of surrender.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

Kiss the hand you cannot bite.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

There it is. Take it.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

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

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

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