Compromise Quotes

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

A series is filled with compromises.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Make no compromise in quality.

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.

we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

Love is the one thing on which you should never compromise