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«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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accepts, Body Parts, bond, brutally, environment, escapes, governed, Great Society, imposed, material, material body, physical body, privilege, social, subject, subject to, superior, superiority, to that, transcended, transcends, yoke, yoked, yokes
«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
«The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.»
«In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, / Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, / And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; / And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters; / I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.»
Author: Bible
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Ammonites, Jehoiakim, Josiah, outstretched, outstretches, The Beast, yokes
«At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.»
«Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, / Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.»
«It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth»
«Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. . . . Free from what? Zarathustra does not care about that! But your eye should clearly tell me: free for what?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
escaped, ruling, rulings, yoke, yoked, yokes, Zarathustra
«The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . .»
«O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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everlasting, inauspicious, set up, shake, yoke, yoked, yokes
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