John Paul Jones Quotes

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

The tradition of our Navy mandates that senior officials bear the ultimate responsibility for their command.

I am having immense fun running the Navy.

I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

The inferiority of women is man-made.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government.