Quotes About Compromise

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.

Opinion is often compromised in the face of fear.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There

My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in the event of their survival.

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation.

Whatever made her happy made me happy—except the time she thought divorcing me would make her life happier. That didn't do much for me.

The law could bend. If there were lawyers involved, then there was always a deal to be made.

The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system's checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizations. The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation

I suspected that Judge Leggoe would go along to get along.

for thirty years this country's had the best aviation safety record in the world. But the thing is, we paid for it. We paid to have new, safe planes and we paid for the oversight to make sure they were well maintained. But those days are over. Now, everybody believes in something for nothing.

She loves the world for being rude and indestructible, and she knows that other people must love it too, poor as well as rich, though no one speaks specifically of the reasons. Why else do we struggle to go on living, no matter how compromised, no matter how harmed? Even when we're further gone than Richard; even if we're fleshless, blazing with lesions, shitting in the sheets; still, we want desperately to live.

Every form of strength covers one weakness and creates another, and therefore every form of strength is also a form of weakness and every weakness a strength.

After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?

After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else? "I

If that involved some misperception on Amos's part—some exaggeration of the earthly status of Danny's ideas—well, then, Amos should continue to misperceive. After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else? "I wanted something from him, not from the world," said Danny.

The big banks and the exchanges have a clear responsibility to protect investors—to handle investor stock market orders in the best possible way, and to create a fair marketplace. They've been paid to compromise investors' interests, while pretending to guard those interests. I was surprised more people weren't angry with them.

Page 37: Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution counted each slave (usually treated in the law as chattel property) as three fifths of a person in determining Southern representation in the House of Representatives (this compromise, it should be noted, served Northern interests; had each slave been counted as a complete person for purposes of congressional representation, the South would have had even more representatives in Congress).

Elric knew; that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance. This knowledge gave Elric his strength – his profound anger at injustice and inequality

What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.