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The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence. -- Suzanne Massie
All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ... -- Suzanne Massie
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. -- Virginia Woolf
Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. -- H. L. Mencken
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. -- Michel de Montaigne
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. -- Thomas Jefferson
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. -- Samantha Power
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. -- Woodrow Wilson
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe! -- Anton Szandor LaVey
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. -- Tacitus
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. -- John Allen Paulos
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. -- James Larkin
One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. -- Vincent de Paul
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. -- Laurence Sterne
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. -- Wendell Berry
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering. -- Francois Fenelon
The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence. -- Thomas A. Bailey
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality. -- Jeff Buckley
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights. -- Thomas Jefferson
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them. -- Mark Hertsgaard
To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A really decent god-believer, far from giving thanks for the food and good health and fortune enjoyed by himself and his family and close friends, would surely curse God for his neglect of the hungry, the sick and the tormented, throughout the world. -- Barbara Smoker
Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse. -- Thomas M. Disch
Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. -- C.J. Redwine
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. -- Bertrand Russell
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? -- William J. Murray
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given -- William Ames
Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer, -- Michael F. Jacobson
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in Godâ??s will, whatever comes. -- Amy Carmichael
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. -- Norbert Wiener
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality -- Jeff Buckley
The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Elizabeth Janeway
Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world. -- Montague Brown
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. -- Rico Lebrun
Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support. -- Rush Limbaugh
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. -- Doug Stanhope
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed. -- Thomas Jefferson

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