Quotes About Capitulation

To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

Acabar junto a Dios después de toda una vida de racionalismo ilustrado supondría la más vergonzosa de las capitulaciones.

If the price of peace on India's streets was capitulation to the Empire and its threats, Gandhi was not willing to pay that price.

To succumb to the God Temptation in either of those guises, biological or cosmological, is an act of intellectual capitulation. If you are trying to explain something improbable, it can never suffice to invoke an entity that is, in itself, at least as improbable. If you'll stoop to magicking into existence an unexplained peacock-designer, you might as well magic an unexplained peacock and cut out the middleman.

To succumb to the God Temptation in either of those guises, biological or cosmological, is an act of intellectual capitulation.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.

There's parts of Sydney totally indistinguishable from West London. It's exactly the same - the sense of capitulation, discouraging assimilation.

Ou seja, total capitulação da empresa à força da greve. A empresa começa com cara de Rambo e termina com jeitinho de Clodovil.

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.

The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

Darn you and your infernal logic." Asher ran both hands through his hair, mussing it to ridiculous heights. "Fine," he capitulated. "But I want in. Whatever you're planning to do about this, whatever Vivvie's doing, I want in.

Yalta can be seen as neither the portal to Roosevelt's "world of justice and equity" nor a disgraceful capitulation to red fascism but, rather, an intricate nexus of compromises by East and West. Roosevelt "largely followed through on earlier plans, and gained most of what he wished," the historian Robert Dallek concluded

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

If you want any hope of staying in the EU, or having a Brexit that doesn't mean capitulation to ethno-nationalism, you've got to tie it to a wider vision of political and economic transformation.

The mufti and his terrorists had achieved their goal: a spectacular capitulation from the British.

The moment of true capitulation came when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association quietly took Mormonism off the list of apostate religious groups.

The Withdrawal Agreement - Theresa May's flagship policy, devised and drafted by Brussels, endorsed and supported by the entire Government machine - marks the surrender and capitulation of our country. If it were to become U.K. law, it would represent a national humiliation.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

I had gone rapidly from embarrassment to an embarrassing sense of pride. All my life people had capitulated to Blackwood Maner. They had positively raved about it, and I wondered now that I had been so mortified. But this being, this strangely compelling and handsome individual into whose hands I'd put my very life, had grown up in a castle, and I had feared he would laugh at what he saw.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Yet, there is another altogether tantalizing form of surrender. The act of giving in with a vengeance.