Quotes About Compromise

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

When it came to evil, to tolerate was to accommodate, to accommodate was to appease, and to appease was to concede defeat.

A life is the gradual approach, through an infinite number of compromises, to a preconceived goal, to an ideal, a dream or vision which may never be completely realized

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Friedrich von Logau

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Food?" he asked. "Is that your answer to every disagreement?" Eshonai asked, breaking her song. "It's hard to argue with your mouth full," Thude said.

War is the last option of the state that has failed

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?

There's no profit in peace.

There is a saying in the Steel Ministry," Yomen finally said. " 'Sit down to dine with evil, and you will ingest it with your meal.

Middle ground only comes in war after lots of people have died—and only after the important people are worried they might actually lose.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, what do you choose?

extremists at both ends of the political continuum have more in common with each other than they do with the vast majority of people from their own constituencies.

the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery also managed to perpetuate the fatal compromise of the Constitution, which had counted the slave as only three-fifths of a person, and that is no person at all.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Catherine de Hueck Doherty observes in The Gospel Without Compromise: The Gospel can be summed up by saying that it is the tremendous, tender, compassionate, gentle, extraordinary, explosive, revolutionary revelation of Christ's love.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go.

When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them

E non puoi sempre piacere a te stessa, qualche volta devi piacere agli altri! [...] ma c'è una cosa che è anche più importante: devi spesso dispiacere agli altri.

Vorbeam cu chibzuit? premeditare, dar, pe m?sur? ce cuvintele mele deveneau sonore, m? izbea imprudenÈ›a lor. TotuÈ™i, le d?deam drumul la noroc È™i nu-mi p?rea r?u, fiindc?, la urma urmei, poate c? b?trîna va fi dispus? s? negocieze.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.