Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. Carl Jung
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. Benjamin N. Cardozo
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is itself to succumb to the violence of our times. Thomas Merton
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. Audre Lorde
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. J. Irwin Miller
Did I not tell you that whenever you argue with the Queen she is sure to have the upper hand?! I see that one fine morning you will succumb to her reasoning and cast me off! Catherine of Aragon