Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.” — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“Peace in this life springs from acquiescence even in disagreeable things, not in an exemption from bearing them. FRANÇOIS DE LA MOTHE… — Mary W. Tileston Copy Share Image
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Most of you,' he went on, 'already know how I have been able to limit the area of investigation in a first… — René Daumal Copy Share Image
“It can come a bit hard sometimes to see one's own unique, heroic life pinned so pitilessly to a wall. At other… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rushworth was eager to assure her ladyship of his acquiescence, and tried to make out something complimentary; but between his submission… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer. — Michael F. Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames Copy Share Image
“With enough criticism, you may get acquiescence from your spouse. He may do what you want, but probably it will not be… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
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