Submissive Quotes

• A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

  Anne Desclos

  Men, Giving, Dominance

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• When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.

  Maya Banks

  Safe Haven, Men, Giving

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• It's hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When you can't refuse anything and can't even move, those voices in your head go silent. All you can do, and all you are permitted to do, is feel.

  Cherise Sinclair

  Moving, Voice, Decision

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.

  Eva Longoria

  Sexy, Men, Scarves

  “Eva's kinky fantasies” by Andrew McNulty, www.nowtolove.co.nz. April 17, 2007.

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• The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Children, Humility, Profound

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• Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Faith, Ties, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.393

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• To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Mean, Looks, Feminine

  Gabrielle Reece, Karen Karbo (2014). “My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.

  Maya Banks

  Beautiful, Greatness, Men

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• Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.215, Lulu.com

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• The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .

  Erich Fromm

  Hurt, Integrity, Emotional

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Hard Times

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.113, Chinese University Press

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• Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Creativity, Men

  "Points of Rebellion". Book by William O. Douglas, 1970.

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• The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

  Ernst Rohm

  People, Want, Dread

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• If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

  Emma Watson

  Men, Order, Accepted

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

  Rooney Mara

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "'Girl with the dragon tattoo' star Rooney Mara talks Nude Poster" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Challenges, Looking Away

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• Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Humility, Pride, Order

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

  Warren Jeffs

  Children, Husband, Men

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• A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Evil, Heaven

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.300, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'

  Michele Bachmann

  Husband, Hate, Law

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2011.

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• Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Eye, Men, Afterlife

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.235, Routledge

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• Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Hands, Brain, Fiction

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Loss, Forever

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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