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Quotes About Appease

When, out of fear, we avoid conflict and appease people, we are false peacemakers. For
~ Peter Scazzero
No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.
~ Aeschylus
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
I'm a fan pleaser.
~ Tony Ferguson
However, Saudi Arabia quickly discovered what the rest of the world would soon learn. Fundamentalism, in all religious traditions, is impervious to suppression. The more one tries to squelch it, the stronger it becomes. Counter it with cruelty, and it gains adherents. Kill its leaders, and they become martyrs. Respond with despotism, and it becomes the sole voice of opposition. Try to control it, and it will turn against you. Try to appease it, and it will take control.
~ Reza Aslan
If gazelles had a religion and the lion was their god they could, in order to appease his appetite, voluntarily surrender one of their number to him. This is exactly what happens among men: religious sacrifice springs from a state of crowd fear. It serves to halt the pursuit and, for a while, stil the hunger of the hostile power.
~ Elias Canetti
Would you? That would be fab.' Aseed made the triangle sign. 'What's that?' 'It's a cheese triangle. Appease the Cheese. It's kind of a slogan I made up.
~ Eoin Colfer
The world pampers the body with food and material comforts," she said. "They appease the flesh but are enemies of the spirit. Abstinence is a bridle that gives the spirit a chance in the eternal quarrel with the body.
~ Andrew Davidson
But this experience taught me that our civilization cannot survive if we continue to appease the Islamists.
~ Roger Scruton
The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
'Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.
~ Aristophanes
I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.
~ Jon Favreau
The concept of internal customers suits the wimpy organization headed by a wimp who tries to appease everyone and satisfy no-one.
~ Jonar Nader
In his opinion, it was possible to appease certain desires reputed to be the most difficult to satisfy under normal conditions – and that, what's more, by a subtle subterfuge, by an approximate simulation of the object of those very desires.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.
~ Judy Garland
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
When it came to evil, to tolerate was to accommodate, to accommodate was to appease, and to appease was to concede defeat.
~ Frederick Forsyth
some of us move away by withdrawing, hiding, silencing ourselves, and keeping secrets. Some of us move toward by seeking to appease and please. And some of us move against by trying to gain power over others, by being aggressive, and by using shame to fight shame (like sending really mean e-mails).
~ Brene Brown
in order to deal with shame, some of us move away by withdrawing, hiding, silencing ourselves, and keeping secrets. Some of us move toward by seeking to appease and please. And some of us move against by trying to gain power over others, by being aggressive, and by using shame to fight shame
~ Brene Brown
According to Dr. Hartling, in order to deal with shame, some of us move away by withdrawing, hiding, silencing ourselves, and keeping secrets. Some of us move toward by seeking to appease and please. And, some of us move against by trying to gain power over others, by being aggressive, and by using shame to fight shame (like sending really mean e-mails).
~ Brene Brown
Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worse. -Richard Rahl
~ Terry Goodkind
Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worst.
~ Terry Goodkind
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaches out to embrace suffering Syrians, his government seems ready to throw embattled Mexicans under the bus just to appease Mr. Trump.
~ Denise Dresser
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky