Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would…

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

— Suzanne Massie

“All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.”

— Suzanne Massie

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the…

— Suzanne Massie

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be…

— George Washington

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

— Thomas Jefferson

“It can come a bit hard sometimes to see one's own unique, heroic life pinned so pitilessly to a wall. At other times it…

— Stephen Fry

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

— Bertrand Russell

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming…

— Rush Limbaugh

Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

— Anonymous

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in…

— James Larkin

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The submission which you demand of yourself to the general fact of evil in the world, your apparent acquiescence in it, is here nothing…

— William James

What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs…

— Edward Everett

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under…

— Laurence Sterne