Accepts Quotes

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Evil, Against, Involved

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx

Care, Club, Belong

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
Willard Scott

Family, Positive, Yourself

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Bob Dylan

Accept, Sure, Whether

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love, Smile, Mother

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Carly Simon

War, Strong, Woman

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia

Great, Pain, Mind

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell

Technology, Students, Top

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Thomas Aquinas

Person, Whatever, Church

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland

Kiss, Rest, Second

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. Forster

Beauty, Best, Her

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

History, Excuse, Difficulty

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
Jeff Bridges

Himself, Relaxed, Appeals

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman

Life, Person, Maturity

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren G. Bennis

Leader, Status, Manager

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
Kesha

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.
Dee Dee Myers

Life, Best, American

Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.
Jolene Blalock

Person, Until, Natural

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
William Hague

Change, Strong, Far

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
Tony Blair

Everyone, Act, Community

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.
Mike Singletary

Great, Place, Vision

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
William Barclay

Through, Jesus, Lord

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Maxim Gorky

Earth, Miserable, Disgusting

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
Robert Fripp

Accept, King, Audience

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
Patrick McGoohan

Live, Trying, After

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe

Art, Romantic, Long

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