Acquiesce Quotes
Quotes on conformity, compliance, and resistance
These quotes weigh the tension between quietly accepting expectations and defiantly resisting them, a conflict also explored in our Front Line collection on standing firm.
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...
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
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Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
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...
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From gender roles to scientific belief, acquiescence here is treated as a real choice with consequences either way. Journalist George Stephanopoulos's quotes touch on similarly weighty personal decisions.
