Quotes on Appease

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

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

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

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.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity.

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.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

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.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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