Acquiescence Quotations

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

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.

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ...

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

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

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

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

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

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