Quotes with acquiescence

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• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  ― Tacitus
  Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imaginatively
• acquiescence
• unscrupulous
• individuals
• shocking
• blessing

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