Lorne Greene

The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.

Canadian Actor

Madhuri Dixit

Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

Indian Actress

Sebastian Thrun

I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.

German Scientist

Supriya Pathak

For older actresses, the story is still the same. They are either subservient wives taking care of their husbands - like that typical age-old character of a woman, who serves her husband a hot cup of tea as soon as he comes home; or they are mothers dependent on their sons.

John Stuart Mill

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

English Philosopher

Stephen Kinzer

Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.

American Author

Mellody Hobson

There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.

American Businessman

Dutee Chand

Follow your heart, and don't be subservient to anyone. Shut out the world, and only listen to your heart to fulfill your dreams.

Indian Athlete

Neko Case

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

American Musician

Mahatma Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Indian Leader

Understand 'subservient' indicates lower status or less power, often willingly taken.

Power Dynamics

'Subservient' can feel negative, used to describe unfair or unvalued obedience.

Negative Connotation

'Subservient' isn't only for people; it can describe entities or elements, too.

Not Just People

'Subservient' signals something of lesser importance in a hierarchy or system.

Hierarchy Significance

Things that are 'subservient' often support or enable more significant elements.

Supportive Role

Use 'subservient' to describe roles, jobs, or positions that are lower in rank.

Subordinate Context

'Subservient' implies limits on authority, suggesting a controlled scope of action.

Authority Limitation

 Hopkins your people and ours we need to make a common cause for a better life for all of it the challenge for me was to play the leader that he would become and to play against my my physicality to play against my usual casting type in that he would be subservient he would learn how to be a leader and then I just wanted to

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 The Handmaid's Tale imagines a future in which the conservative counter-movement gains the upper hand and not only demolishes the progress women had made toward equality, but makes women completely subservient to men. Gilead divides women in the regime into distinct social classes

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 that women should play a secondary position, a subservient position to men. So they issued an edict, in effect, that prevents women from being priests, pastors, deacons in the church, or chaplains in the military, and if a woman teaches a classroom

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 Zeus deemed humans subservient creatures vulnerable to the elements and dependent on the gods for protection. However, Prometheus envisioned his crude creations with a greater purpose. So when Zeus asked him to decide how sacrifices would be made,

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 In this way, the tools of the masters become masterworks to celebrate those who were once subservient. This metaphor extends beyond the realm of art and out into the real world. Whether worn by refugees or world-changing entrepreneurs,

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 And he asked what should he do, right. What should he do? Should he live this like this life of being a subservient slave you know, his wife had just been stolen from him. Or should he fight back.

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