Quotes About Compromise

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

I think above all, what we need with Iran is patience.

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.