Acquiesce Quotes
34 Acquiesce quotes by 32 unique authors
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Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
— Robert Dale Owen
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If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only…
— John Rawls
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It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure)…
— Criss Jami
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The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason,…
— Robert E. Lee
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No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to…
— Robert Frost
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If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't…
— Robert Smith
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Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say, And cast your words away upon the waves. Sail them home with acquiesce…
— Noel Gallagher
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One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to…
— Marcel Proust
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Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say…
— Toni Morrison
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Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.
— Wendy Kaminer
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If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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