subordination

Noun

Meaning

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

Place of inferior rank.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination. George Bernard Shaw

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. George Bernard Shaw

Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible. Paulo Freire

All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears. Joseph de Maistre

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good. Alexander Maclaren

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