Submission
The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.
An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.
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Submission Quotations
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.
June Carter Cash
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sam Houston
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Robert Smithson
Submission Translations
submission in German is Unterbreitung, Unterwerfung
submission in Italian is soggiogamento
submission in Latin is obsequium
submission in Swedish is underkastelse
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