Quotes with subordinated

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• If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

  Günter Grass
  German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

  Karl Kraus
  Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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• The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

  Arthur Capper
  American politician (1865 - 1951)
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• The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness
• consideration
• subsistence
• nationality
• attributed
• whatsoever

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