Top 17 Subservient Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Subservient Quotes from famous people such as Ava DuVernay, Mellody Hobson, Mahatma Gandhi, Sue Monk Kidd, Dutee Chand, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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All black women aren’t sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
Ava DuVernay
There’s nothing wrong with being help. But it’s very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That’s problematic.
Mellody Hobson
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.
Sue Monk Kidd
Follow your heart, and don’t be subservient to anyone. Shut out the world, and only listen to your heart to fulfill your dreams.
Dutee Chand
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time – well into the eighteenth century.
Wilhelm Dilthey
I didn’t come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else’s vision.
Nic Pizzolatto
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler
The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.
John C. Calhoun
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
Neko Case
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
Rebecca De Mornay
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
Peter Wright
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
Elisha Gray
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing’s regime in Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong
The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
Nassau William Senior
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
John Stuart Mill
You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
Medgar Evers