Quotes About Appeasement

Worse than Munich with worse than Chamberlain!

Ever since Barack Obama had become president, the main policy of the U.S. government toward Russia had been one of appeasement.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal Law.

The Buddha says: 'Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Europeans are a people with little willingness to defend themselves. They are people who believe that peace treaties, appeasement, and disarmament produce peace.

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.

Tal como nos enseña la naturaleza, cuando una persona se comporta sumisamente, realmente está intentando apaciguar a alguien que se percibe como amenazante (depredador) o reconociendo su superioridad.

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES of temperaments. One who is easily angered and easily appeased—his virtue cancels his flaw. One whom it is difficult to anger and difficult to appease—his flaw cancels his virtue. One whom it is difficult to anger and is easily appeased, is pious. One who is easily angered and is difficult to appease, is wicked. —PIRKEI AVOT 5:11

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

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?

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.

She hated that many of her colleagues hid behind the title "Planned Parenthood." That was a euphemism. "It irks my very soul and all that is Irish in me to acquiesce to the appeasement group that is so prevalent in our beloved organization," she wrote.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area. What should we do? Shall we take the position that, submitting to threat, it is better to surrender pieces of free territory in the hope that this will satisfy the appetite of the aggressor and we shall have peace?

If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

Chamberlain moved again to concession. "Appeasement" was at that time a popular and not a pejorative word.

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

La belleza es un monstruo, una deidad sangrienta a la que hay que aplacar con constantes sacrificios...

We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of 'justice to all, appeasement of none.'

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.