Quotes
Quotes about Compromise
All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter.
Only the continuity of a name rises above a grumbling compromise
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752 The Christian should be a conscience in his group. His presence must never be used to provide a Christian justification for evil. To stand as a co-belligerent and not an ally will be to rally the middle ground for a genuine Third Way without mediocre compromise. The Third Way will not be easy. It will be lonely. Sometimes the Christian must have the courage to stand with the establishment, speaking boldly to the radicals and pointing out the destructive and counter-productive nature of their violence. At other times, he will stand as a co-belligerent with the radicals in their outrage and just demands for redress. The Christian is a co-belligerent with either or both when either or both are right, but... fearless in his opposition to either or both when they are wrong.
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
