Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions. — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also…There can be no hope that either will yield… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after… — Fred Claire Copy Share Image
I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
Immigrants who voluntarily come to a country have already made a decision to assimilate to one degree or another. Probably not completely,… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession. — Barrett Brown Copy Share Image
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image