The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding… — Dominique Pire Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk. — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
“Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.” — Renate Bridenthal Copy Share Image
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The… — Dmitry Manuilsky Copy Share Image
Life makes concessions for no one; it's up to each of us to learn from our experiences; laugh; cry; scream; shout; do… — Mary Surratt 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
Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch… — David Ben-Gurion 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
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.… — Samuel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of… — Patrice Motsepe Copy Share Image
Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
“The more extreme the opening positions and the smaller the concessions, the more time and effort it will take to discover whether… — Roger Fisher Copy Share Image
The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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 concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. — Karl Kraus 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
Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
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