Succumb Quotes

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual it can be terrifying. The blacklist is just the opening gambit - being deprived of work. Your passport is confiscated. That`s minor. But not being able to move without being tailed is something else. After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized. In 1953 the HUCA did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn`t borrow. I had the expenses of taking care of the children. Why am I subjecting my loved ones to this? If it`s worth dying for, and I am just as idealistic as the next fellow. But I decided it wasn`t worth dying for, and if this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary I`d do it. I had to be employable again." - interview with Victor Navasky for the book "Naming Names

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won`t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn`t have a good time.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

She`s not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.