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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future. -- Val Kilmer
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
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. -- Phillip E. Johnson
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 like to do that. -- Robert Smith
Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.' -- Srikumar Rao
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 control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. -- Robert Frost
On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours. -- Deborah Sampson
Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk? -- Amity Shlaes
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. -- Sean Parker
Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand. -- Thomas Jefferson
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason." -- Immanuel Kant
Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least. -- Wendy Kaminer
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
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface. -- Alvin Rosenfeld
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 be. -- Marcel Proust
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives. -- H. L. Mencken
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer. -- Richard Holt Hutton
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman. -- Thomas Hobbes
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 the victim had no right to live -- Toni Morrison
My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will. -- Christian Scriver
Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses. -- Richard Crossman
We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race. -- Edward Gibbon
This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace. -- Evelyn Underhill
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 when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. -- John Rawls

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