Placating Quotes

• [Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Dog, Addiction, Enough

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

  Jacque Fresco

  Freedom, Acceptance, Games

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• An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

  Luc Tuymans

  One Direction, Self, Elements

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• Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.

  Benjamin Constant

  Weakness, Half, Way

  Benjamin Constant (2006). “Adolphe”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.

  Louis C. K.

  Television, Notes, Workload

  "Writing Comedy – Interview with Louis C.K". Interview with Dan Calvisi, actfourscreenplays.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

  Rebecca West

  Sacrifice, Race, Childhood

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• In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

  Mitt Romney

  Yield, Views, Hands

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