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
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
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the… — George Santayana 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
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
Their rhetoric is the same as always. The only difference is that the United States has granted them a whole series of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an… — 1st Baron St Helens Alleyne FitzHerbert Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a Chris Christie joke, just say, 'Christie spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Then… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
If we are to reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“... I'd like to get along with them, but in practice, I don't want to have to make concessions to be the… — Sanjena Sathian Copy Share Image
It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse,… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If it's a low-brow bawdy comedy, it's got to stand the chance of succeeding as such. If it's an intellectual piece, a… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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