Quotes Tagged With :acquiescence

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance,....

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty....

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more....

Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant....

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that....