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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
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 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
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as… — Mark Hertsgaard 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
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. — Samantha Power 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
