Quotes About Appeasement

#1. If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

Ronald Reagan

#2. In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

Criss Jami

#3. The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#4. For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

Narendra Modi

#5. There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

Ronald Reagan

#6. Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

William Allen White

#7. She hated that many of her colleagues hid behind the title "Planned Parenthood." That was a euphemism. "It irks my very soul and all that is Irish in me to acquiesce to the appeasement group that is so prevalent in our beloved organization," she wrote.

David Halberstam

#8. 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.

Helmut Schoeck

#9. Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace

Terry Goodkind

#10. If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Ronald Reagan

#11. Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

Winston Churchill

#12. Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.

John Naughton

#13. Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

Chris Huhne

#14. 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.

Michael Scheuer

#15. The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Paddy Ashdown

#16. The era of procrastination ... is coming to a close ... we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

Al Gore

#17. A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Ronald Reagan

#18. President Obama Tastes the Bitter Fruit of Appeasement ... of Israel, not Iran

Peter Lee

#19. 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.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#20. In his 1978 Harvard commencement address, Solzhenitsyn listed a litany of woes facing the West: the loss of courage and will, the addiction to comfort, the abuse of freedom, the capitulation of intellectuals to fashionable ideas, the attitude of appeasement with evil.

Charles W. Colson

#21. Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Barbara Tuchman

#22. Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Chuck Hagel

#23. Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

Ronald Reagan

#24. Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

Dean Rusk

#25. May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

Julie Burchill

#26. Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

George H. W. Bush

#27. Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#28. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

John Stott

#29. You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Anthony Eden

#30. Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Jose Maria Aznar

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

Mona Charen

#32. The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

George Allen

#33. And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

William P. Young

#34. The Western rhetoric of appeasement creates a self-reinforcing loop of mental and moral corruption. Speaking the truth now would mean confessing to many months of lies

Garry Kasparov

#35. The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.

Mark Kirk

#36. The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

Garry Kasparov

#37. Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Jasper Johns

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#39. 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.

Mitt Romney

#40. Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

Barack Obama

#41. A portion of the electorate will always levitate toward the scratch and sniff candidate, granting them superficial appeasement without any substance.

T. Rafael Cimino

#42. 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.

William Safire

#43. British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.

Sol Stern

#44. I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

#45. Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

Mark Steyn

#46. It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

Rick Perry

#47. Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.

Criss Jami

#48. What decent philosopher was ever an appeaser? The former is a rare catch among the multitudes of modern opinionists. His role is to be one who loves truth. That is a place where his love for humanity is more powerful than his love for hot air about empowering humanity.

Criss Jami

#49. Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Criss Jami

#50. The Russian contribution to peace in Ukraine is not sufficient. [German Chancellor commenting on 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea]

Angela Merkel

#51. If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.
Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938.

Jan Masaryk

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

Winston S. Churchill

#53. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Criss Jami