Compromise Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the…

— Marquis de Sade

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of…

— Fredrik Bajer

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

— Aaron Hill

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

— Wilhelm Reich

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

— Peter Singer

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

— Immanuel Kant

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger…

— James Madison

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

— Aristotle

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

— Pramila Jayapal

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

— Mo Ibrahim

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

— John Boehner

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

— Antonin Scalia