Compromise Quotes - page 10

It is forbidden for religious behavior to compromise a personal, natural, moral sensibility. If it does, our fear of heaven is no longer pure. An indication of its purity is that our nature and moral sense becomes more exalted as a consequence of religious inspiration. But if these opposites occur, then the moral character of the individual or group is dismissed by religious observance, and we have certainly been mistaken in our faith. (Abraham Isaac Kook)
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise. View quote
Thomas Hughes
The Scottish Communist is a much misunderstood person. When he is a true Caledonian, and not a Pole or an Irishman, he is simply the lineal descendant of the old Radical. The Scottish Radical was a man who held a set of inviolable principles on which he was entirely unable to compromise. It did not matter what the principles were; the point was that they were like the laws of Sinai, which could not be added to or subtracted from. When the Liberal party began to compromise, he joined Labour; when Labour began to compromise, by a natural transition he became a Communist. Temperamentally he has not changed. He is simply the stuff which in the seventeenth century made the unyielding Covenanter, and in the eighteenth the inflexible Jacobite. He is honesty incarnate, but his mind lacks flexibility. View quote
John Buchan
Politics is compromise. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
Are we opposed to Prussian militarism? ... We have been fighting it since the day the Socialist movement was born; and we are going to continue to fight it, day and night, until it is wiped from the face of the earth. Between us there is no truce-no compromise. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
There is but one thing you have to be concerned about, and that is that you keep foursquare with the principles of the international Socialist movement. It is only when you begin to compromise that trouble begins. So far as I am concerned, it does not matter what others may say, or think, or do, as long as I am sure that I am right with myself and the cause. There are so many who seek refuge in the popular side of a great question. As a Socialist, I have long since learned how to stand alone. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
We brought a man back who should have died long ago. The present can't stand a man like that anymore. Now they want indecision and compromise and reluctance and fear. View quote
Mickey Spillane
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them. View quote
Alan Sugar
If this is an attempt by voters to blackmail the government, to compromise on important issues or principles, then we must show them we cannot be blackmailed. No government should succumb to blackmail. View quote
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam
We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise. (Benazir Bhutto)
I tend to believe that the difference between us and them is that we don't compromise our principles for temporary convenience. View quote
Charles Stross
I've negotiated bank deals all over the globe. Everything is a compromise. ... I never take anything off the table. They say good luck, put your government together. Fine - I've loved it. So we have jumped in with vigor. I have now had CEOs who have called me, several have come to visit me, and made it clear to me that I better get this workforce development fixed or they have to take other options available to them. Obviously, the biggest challenge is state government is so immense, so many different departments, so many people involved. It's a challenge but not an overwhelming challenge - I actually enjoy it. I haven't taken time off since the election. Many of my predecessors have said ‘You need to do that.' It's really not my personality. View quote
Terry McAuliffe
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. View quote
Piet Hein
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail. View quote
Natan Sharansky
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise. View quote
Jane Austen
The devil is compromise. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. (Daniel Pipes)
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. View quote
Nicole Kidman
Whitman had a profound influence on me. ... He was useful to me in the perfection of form, as a sort of compromise between the strict and the free. View quote
Conrad Aiken
I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise. View quote
Ted Danson
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. View quote
William Butler Yeats