“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
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
“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 virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames 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
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
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
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
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
“Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens,… — Grace Metalious 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
“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
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. — Samantha Power 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
“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
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell 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
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? — William J. Murray 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
