Accepting

Famous quotes containing the word accepting:

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Politicians—power itself—are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives.... One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abjectness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

“Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the evitable.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)