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
[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
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
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would… — Rush Limbaugh 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
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington 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
If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold… — David Icke 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
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
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope 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
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
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
“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
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
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image