“Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it”
Frank Herbert
“Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential utterances of abject silence?”
Anne Austin
“Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over ,this earth.”
Guru Nanak
“WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.”
Ambrose Bierce
“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.”
Clare Short
“When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything”
Friedrich Nietzsche