If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by hersel...f, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and societ...y are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society a...re non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.... The individual is the heart of society, conserving the essence of social life; society is the lungs which are distributing the element to keep the life essence--that, is, the individual--pure and strong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On his favourite subject of subordination, Johnson said, "So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two p...eople can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal p...leasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be ex...ercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subo...rdination of the latter to the former.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, t...hey can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the cliché that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human associati...on. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »