Acquiescence Quotes

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

If philosophy is still necessary,
it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique,
as resistance to the expanding heteronomy,
even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth,
by their own criteria,
both a fabricated mythology and a conniving,
resigned acquiescence.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.