Voluntary Submission Quotes

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

No people must be forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live.

When we consider how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force, and even in their mental powers and faculties, till cultivated by education, we must necessarily allow that nothing but their own consent could at first associate them together and subject them to any authority.

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.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.