„To accept that certain things cannot be said is to accept that certain forms of power cannot be challenged.“

„Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.“

—  Reinhold Niebuhr American protestant theologian 1892 - 1971

„God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.“

—  Dan Brown, книга Angels & Demons

Источник: Angels & Demons

„I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.“

—  Nick Cave Australian musician 1957

Politics, society and humanity

„He who accepts the class struggle cannot fail to accept civil wars, which in every class society are the natural, and under certain conditions inevitable, continuation, development and intensification of the class struggle… To repudiate civil war, or to forget about it, is to fall into extreme opportunism and renounce the socialist revolution.“

—  Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924

As quoted in The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution, Collected Works, Vol. 23, pages 78-9.
Attributions

„That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.“

—  Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945

Tel Quel (1943)

„The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.“

—  Sigmund Freud Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis 1856 - 1939

Источник: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 8

„I will not accept boundaries; appearances cannot contain me“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, книга The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Контексте: I will not accept boundaries; appearances cannot contain me; I choke! To bleed in this agony, and to live it profoundly, is the second duty.
The mind is patient and adjusts itself, it likes to play; but the heart grows savage and will not condescend to play; it stifles and rushes to tear apart the nets of necessity.

„You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others — that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.“

—  Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983

Journal entry (30 October 1958, 6:30 am)
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront (1969)

„Until creationists accept that their claims must be falsifiable and show how they could be falsified, creationism cannot be said to be a scientific theory.“

—  Mordechai Ben-Ari Israeli computer scientist 1948

Источник: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 4, “Falsificationism: If It Might Be Wrong, It’s Science” (p. 75)

„Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.“

—  Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941

„It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.“

—  Jean Paul Sartre, книга Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness (1943)

„You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.“

—  Nevil Shute, книга Round the Bend

Источник: Round the Bend

„I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.“

—  Alison Goodman Australian science-fiction writer 1966

Источник: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

„We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.“

—  Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965

A Declaration of Independence (12 March 1964) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1148
Вариант: We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Контексте: There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. There can be no workers' solidarity until there is first some racial solidarity. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

„“It’s not right. A human being is a human being. A human being is not a toy.”
“We cannot help but use the people below us as a resource, my love,” said her two MOHmies, as one. “That is what it means to be in power. Your choice is to relinquish power forever, or to accept that and use people for good.”…
“If we are powerful,” sang her MOHmies, “we can make things better, but we are made unclean by the fact that we have power. If we are powerless we remain clean, but we cannot make things better.”“

—  Adam Roberts, книга Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 2, Chapter 13, “Of Multitudes” (p. 240).
Jack Glass (2012)

„Some students cannot accept that radical openness of history, and they lapse into some form of fundamentalism or traditionalism that simply clings to theological formulas of the past.“

—  Roger Haight American theologian 1936

Preface, p. vii
Dynamics Of Theology

„We cannot be rid of illusions. Illusion is our natural condition. Why not accept it?“

—  John Gray, книга Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

The Deception: The Ultimate Dream (p. 81)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

„African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film.“

—  Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980

Источник: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 44

„What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.“

—  John Shelby Spong American bishop 1931

Источник: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 24