Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity."
Acquiescence quotes
Acquiescence
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence."
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