Compromise Quotes

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Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong. — Unknown Author
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. — Charles Sumner
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of… — Irwin Shaw
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had… — Henry A. Kissinger
The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the… — Steven Pinker
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence. — Walter Annenberg
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of… — Zack de la Rocha
I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. Iâ€™ll work with Martians. If â€” and the if is critical â€”… — Ted Cruz
We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than weâ€™d gotten here.Â We didn't come all this way for no… — Fannie Lou Hamer
Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass. — Emma Goldman
Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of Godâ€™s approval. Courage… — Thomas S. Monson
Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in… — Suzanne Braun Levine
The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum. — James Hansen
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. — Jim Harrison
Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million… — Storm Jameson
Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts… — Eustace Mullins

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