Appeasement Quotes

Appeasement Quote of the day

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

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

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

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

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

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

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

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?

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

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.

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

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

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

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

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.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.