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Quotes on conformity, compliance, and resistance

These quotes weigh the tension between quietly accepting expectations and defiantly resisting them, a conflict also explored in our Front Line collection on standing firm.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.

Quotes by Sean Parker

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Nov 07, 2020

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Quotes by Robert Dale Owen

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Nov 07, 2020

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson

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Nov 07, 2020

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Quotes by Deborah Sampson

From gender roles to scientific belief, acquiescence here is treated as a real choice with consequences either way. Journalist George Stephanopoulos's quotes touch on similarly weighty personal decisions.

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