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• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

  Chinua Achebe

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Refusal, Integrity

• The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

  Enid Bagnold

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Theater, Sweeps

• I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Compromise

• A meagre compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

  Topics in Compromise, Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Lawsuit

• But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Arrive, Consensus, Sooner

• You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

  Ayrton Senna

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Win

• If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Clever, Compromise

• Compromise, n. 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Adjustment

• 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.’

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Political, Good, Sentence

• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Compromise, Death, Fear

  Tags in Honor

• The devil is compromise.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Topics in 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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Topics in Compromise

• I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Topics in Compromise

• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Topics in Compromise

• Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

  Nicole Kidman

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Requires

• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Political, Extremes, Imbalances

• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

  Janis Joplin

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Compromise, Ideals, Perfection

  Tags in Limitations

• Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

  Robert Coles

  Topics in Compromise, Confidence, Democracy, Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Government, Integrity/Individuality, Character, Judgment, Conscience, Courage, Choice, Choosing