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  • The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

    Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black
  • Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

  • Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

    "Hagel emerges from grueling confirmation hearing with solid Dem support for Pentagon job", www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2013.
  • The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

    "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.
  • Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

    Strong   Believe   Past  
    "Mitt Romney victory speech in New Hampshire". www.politico.com.
  • The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous

  • If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.

    Hate   Enemy   Answers  
  • To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

    Years   Envy   Atheism  
  • Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

    "Fictional character: Dean Rusk". "Thirteen Days", www.imdb.com. 2000.
  • Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

    David Shapiro, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns Drawings, 1954-1984”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
  • It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

    War   Thinking   Self  
  • Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

    "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.
  • The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.

  • I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

    Air   Agreement   Smell  
    1990 Describing the western attitude to the Gulf crisis. In The Independent, 31 Oct.
  • A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

    Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”
  • It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

    "Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria" by Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. OCtober 24, 2006.
  • One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

    "Tar Baby Strikes Again" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 13, 1986.
  • The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.

    John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
  • It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  • One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.

    War   Might   Cold  
  • There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

    Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster
  • The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

  • I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

    Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS
  • Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

    "Defying climate deal like appeasing Hitler-UK minister" by Peter Griffiths, af.reuters.com. July 21, 2011.
  • Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.

    Iran   Oil   Trying  
    "What do you think of the plan for a mosque in New York City near Ground Zero?". Podcast on peikoff.com, June 28, 2010.
  • There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

    Peace   War   Years  
  • And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

    Recovery   Years   Cups  
    Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

  • "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

    Cute   Friends   Sweet  
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