Top Acquiescence Quotes

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Acquiescence Definition

(n.) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

(n.) Submission to an injury by the party injured.

(n.) Tacit concurrence in the action of another.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in i...