In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? — William J. Murray 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
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
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames 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
Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse. — Thomas M. Disch 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
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
“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
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
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time… — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 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
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive,… — Jeff Buckley 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
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 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
“The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward… — Audre Lorde 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
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius),… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
