Quotes About Compromise

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Quick, cheap, or good, pick two.

Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with -- what advantage do they see in democracy?

Out of the range of practical politics.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong.

Marriage and Money

Honor Is Like the Hawk . . . For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise . . . and step into the shadow now without complaint. —Rorschach's journal

It was a city built on promise, on compromise, on inspiration and empty rhetoric both, on history poorly remembered and easily bent, and once in a while, on good people with the best of intentions who battled against the distrust, misdirection, and deceit that was politics as usual. (Referring to Washington, D.C.)

little insurance in case you're inclined toward a different destination." In the Jeep, Cork followed No Voice back up the dirt track to the compound. The Arapaho and his grandson still stood in the shade of the outbuilding. Cork waved as he passed to let them know he bore them no ill will. They didn't respond, just stood watching as the two vehicles kicked up dust on their way out.

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.

It's better to swallow pride than blood.

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

People often use partisan identity to fill the void left when their other attachments wither away - ethnic, neighborhood, religious, communal and familial. This is asking more from politics than politics can deliver. Once politics becomes your ethnic or moral identity, it becomes impossible to compromise, because compromise becomes dishonor.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Each decision that we make comes with a hidden price. We're never told what it is we may be asked to sacrifice.

Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.

You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible." Father gazed at the Station. "Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is ... the art of the absolute.

Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.

think one of the big lessons is that we should do more talking and less fighting.

the concentration of capital, or oligopoly, or class power. Compared to any of these, a word like 'inequality' sounds like it's practically designed to encourage half-measures and compromise. It's possible to imagine overthrowing capitalism or breaking the power of the state, but it's not clear what eliminating inequality would even mean.