I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.
Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous
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?
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.
Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.
It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
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.
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
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.
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.
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.
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.
Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.