Compromise Quotes

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that's the core of who you are. But there's always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

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.

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