Appease Quotes

• They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Stopping, Lasts

  "September 11, 2001: Attack on America". Donald Rumsfeld's remarks during the the U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 13, 2001.

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• We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

  Voltaire

  Anxiety, Adore, Invoke

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1747, e-artnow

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

  Anais Nin

  Strength, Encouraging, Positive Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Music revives the recollections it would appease.

  Madame de Stael

  Music, Recollection, Revive

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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• Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

  Walter Lippmann

  Insecure, Successful, Men

  1955 The Public Philosophy, ch.2, sect.4.

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• I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Annoyed, Calling

  "Advice to a Young Scientist". Book by Peter Medawar, p. 25, 1979.

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• I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.

  Dave Matthews

  Way, My Way, Please

  "Song: 'Seek Up'". 2003.

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• I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

  Patti Smith

  Music Business, Flawed

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Conscience

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• Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Believe, Past

  "Mitt Romney victory speech in New Hampshire". www.politico.com.

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• I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Careers, Balance

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• A lot of people don't know that my father is black

  Ryan Giggs

  Father, People, Black

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• You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

  Anthony Eden

  Peace, May, Way

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

  Chuck Hagel

  Engagement, Surrender, Appeasement

  "Hagel emerges from grueling confirmation hearing with solid Dem support for Pentagon job", www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2013.

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• It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Country, Views, Law

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• It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

  Meles Zenawi

  Intelligent, Interesting, People

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• One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

  Jil Sander

  Japan, Differences, Glasses

  "No-frill thrills: Jil Sander is back". www.interviewmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Sacrifice, Doe

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  If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Waiting

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
  Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivation, Learning

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.105, Chinese University Press

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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