Concessions Quotes

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If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which would hurt the memories of our martyrs.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

The idea in collaborative bargaining is to negotiate without making concessions to each other, by looking for joint-gain options instead.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.