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Quotes About Compromised

Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.
~ Adriano Tilgher
The constitution has thus ended up not as Japan's ultimate governing legal document, but in the grand political Japanese tradition as a somewhat blurred and compromised token of legitimacy, hoisted about erratically like a portable shrine by competing contenders for power.
~ R. Taggart Murphy
When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.
~ John Sayles
Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.
~ Steve Hilton
The pastors and professors who gave their enthusiastic support to Hitler all were marked by a particularly intense nationalism. Furthermore, this nationalism justified in their minds any number of compromised values.
~ Robert P. Ericksen
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story
~ Oliver North
Her strong passions were compromised by the limited nature of her objectives. My mother had seen this at an early stage; it was to Dolly's advantage that she had never seen it at all. She needed a guide and had never found one; she needed a benevolent elder, who would watch over her and correct her.
~ Anita Brookner
I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.
~ Andrew Neil
the asymmetry between a ferociously strategic, corporate Republican Party and a compromised Democratic Party is telling.
~ Robert Kuttner
True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.
~ Jim Carrey
The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.
~ Brock Pierce
I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.
~ Elliott Abrams
Faithful Christians who foresaw a professional career for themselves or their children will need to give the trades a second look. Better to be a plumber with a clean conscience than a corporate lawyer with a compromised one.
~ Rod Dreher
No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.
~ Andrew Solomon
contract. I'm trying to get us through this alive, and I don't want my strategy compromised by an amateur with
~ Sandra Brown
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.
~ Hugo Weaving
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
~ Charles Palliser
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.
~ barthelme donald ii
History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.[31] Without at least imagining the missing dimensions to the stories, our view of how to make things happen in the present is seriously compromised.
~ Scott Berkun
It was not a cramped, compromised, circumspect life, but a life lived in a kind of wild, joyful, full-throated freedom—that was what it was to obey God.
~ Eric Metaxas
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.
~ Russ Carnahan
Well,' Frederick had said, 'I will see what can be arranged, Archie. But I will not have the girl frightened or compromised.' 'You sound like a grandfather who has raised fifteen daughters and is now starting on his granddaughters, Freddie,' Lord Archibald had said. 'It is most disconcerting.
~ Mary Balogh
The body's response to this wild, Valsalvic seesawing of the vital signs can throw off the electrical rhythm of the heart. The resulting arrhythmia can be fatal. This is especially likely to happen in someone, like Elvis, with a compromised heart. Fatal arrhythmia is the cause of death listed on Presley's autopsy report.
~ Mary Roach