Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Votes: 2
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. Votes: 2
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. Votes: 2
Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else Votes: 0
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state. Votes: 0
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. Votes: 0
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are. Votes: 0
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. Votes: 0
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his. Votes: 0
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.
Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.