#surrender

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #rethink #surrender #verb #want

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#away #cannot #cruelly #dignity #may

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something. ↗

— James Franco

#dark #feels #go #like #me

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. ↗

— Barney Frank

#approach #ask #bin #brutal #did

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#entrance #happiest #life #my life #office

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#creative #creative process #process #surrender

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#emotion #feel #go #let go #listening

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#based #compromise #fundamentals #give #give and take

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#i wish #last #man #remembered #rifle