You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Perhaps the human lesson is always submission. We have a choice: to rebel or to recognize our powerlessness while maintaining our faith.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

For when you have subjected to externals what is your own, then be a slave and do not resist, and do not sometimes choose to be a slave, and sometimes not choose, but with all your mind be one or the other.

When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless.

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.

A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it,or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that, as I said therein, if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one’s whole being, is that you alone control nothing.

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.