Quotes About Compromise

And a man and woman should fight. Frankly, they should have a good head-to-head battle about every six months, then make love until they break the box springs.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

As Upton Sinclair sardonically noted, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn't been one big decision.

Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants, that his cause is the cause of whatever he may happen to regard as the True Church and that any compromise is a metaphysical Munich, an appeasement of Radical Evil.

Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.

Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific triumph. But socially useless. Six-year-old men and women were too stupid to do even Epsilon work. And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. They were still trying to find the ideal compromise between adults of twenty and adults of six. So far without success. Mr Foster sighed and shook his head.

Éste es el precio que debemos pagar por la estabilidad. Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro.

If you're a human being, you'll be seeing something of both, because we've always wanted things both ways.

Para obtener la felicidad debimos renunciar a la verdad y a la belleza.

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

For the first time in my life I was being absolutely myself, freed from all inhibitions of body, intellect and training...I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane and answering Of course I am-sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.