65 Appease Quotes
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- Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras
- It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie. — Simon Sinek
- Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. — Anais Nin
- The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. — Joseph Campbell
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last. — Winston Churchill
- Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last. — Winston Churchill
- President Obama Tastes the Bitter Fruit of Appeasement...of Israel, not Iran — Peter Lee
- Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive. — Dean Rusk
- Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. — Muhammad Yunus
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds. — Baruch Spinoza
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! — Pythagoras
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. — Winston Churchill
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
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased. — C. L. R. James
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If there is one thing my Soviet childhood taught me, it's that subscribing to someone else's ideology will always inevitably mean having to suspend your own judgment about right and wrong to appease your tribe. I refuse to do so. — Konstantin Kisin
Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face. — Ronald Reagan
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear. — Uell Stanley Andersen
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The only constant you have from Point A, your birth to Point B, your death is you. There is no point in changing who you are to appease others when they're gonna leave your life. LOVE YOURSELF because you're the only one who's stuck with yourself. Fall in love with who you are and if anybody wants to join in on that. More Power to them. — Tyler Oakley
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased. — Odilon Redon
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
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. — Margaret Thatcher
Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy. — Brian Johnson
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. — Robert Ringer
The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger. — P. W. Botha
If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. — Ronald Reagan
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. — Anthony Eden
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s? — Paddy Ashdown
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat. — Viktor Korchnoi
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason. — William Allen White
You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — Larry Flynt
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. — Ovid
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. — Lao Tzu
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian. — Heywood Broun
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. — Barbara Tuchman
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
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world. — Simone Weil
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers. — Ronald Reagan
There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil. — Ronald Reagan
And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time. — Winston Churchill
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb. — Saint Francis de Sales
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
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