Sean Parker

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.

American Businessman

Martin Jacques

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.

British Journalist

Robert Frost

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

American Poet

Alice Walker

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

American Author

Srikumar Rao

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.

Indian Educator

George William Norris

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

American Politician

Robert Smith

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

English Musician

Robert Dale Owen

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

Scottish Politician

Naomi Alderman

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

English Novelist

Val Kilmer

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

American Actor

Acquiesce means agreeing without arguing back, often reluctantly.

Silent Agreement

While acquiescing, the person might still feel unhappy or disagree inside.

Subtle Discontent

Acquiesce can imply a power imbalance where one person feels they can't object.

Power Dynamics

 We want to drill here and here. Well, immediately, you get into a fight. You say, no, you're not. Yes, we are. No, you're not. Well, we're gonna sue you. And I'm just a little guy, you know. I can't stand to be sued by an oil company. So a lot of times, you just acquiesce, say, go ahead, you know. I can't fight you.

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