Unsubjugated Quotes & Sayings

An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation. — Andre Malraux

Our destiny is largely in our hands. — Frederick Douglass

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego
because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself
It is like a wave
it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really
it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again
pulls itself together with pride
towers with pride
rushes forward into imaginary conquest
crashes in frustration
withdraws with remorse and repentance
pulls itself together with new resolution — Agnes Martin

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief. — Alan Dean Foster

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer. — Anne Fortier

Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information. — Clayton Christensen

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader. — Sharon Stone

All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and seems to delight in filling only that place created for him by the white man. — Marcus Garvey

A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer. — Paul Aurandt Jr.

In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight — Barbara W. Tuchman

At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. — Rebecca Solnit