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“There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.”

Fighting Corruption Compromise No Compromise

Author:A. K. Antony

“Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.”

“Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.”

Way Mean Matter Order Interest Half Achieve Politician Democratic Passionate Extremes Compromise Sufficient Notorious Outraged

Book:Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)

Source: Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)

“A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.”

Self Loses Advice Civilization Disease Compromise Self Respect Cherish Viruses

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.”

Revolution Compromise

Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.”

Art Purpose Effort Television Mass Painful Selling Mediums Compromise Combination Aspiration Mixtures Poignant

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.”

People Trying Made Fields Tradition Compromise Journalist Etiquette Discarded

Author:Amy Vanderbilt

“This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.”

World Problem Stupid Building Hero Pure Built Complexes Compromise Uncertainty

Author:Bernard Beckett

“By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.”

“If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.”

Ifs Writing Wells Enough Next Silence Worry Pieces Goes On Compromise Each Day Submit Applause Naysayers

Author:James Lee Burke

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

Has Beens Done Differences Study Tables Gender Compromise Gender Differences Congeniality

Author:Kitty Kelley

“The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.”

Made Important America Powerful Errors Defeat Compromise Vietnam Secretary Kissinger Hanoi

Author:William Shawcross

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

Ifs Want Purpose Style Compromise

Author:Vidal Sassoon

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

Compromise Concessions Capitulation

Author:Jalal Talabani

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

States Building Fairs Iraq Compromise

Author:Jalal Talabani

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

Knows Men Should Said Strong Sound Business Principles Greater Morality Weakness Defeat Arguing Compromise Contradictory Admission Strong Man

Book:The Age of Paradox

Source: The Age of Paradox

“Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.”

People Knows Years Has Beens Art Guy Attention Art Is Tired Excuse Compromise Adequate Making Excuses

Author:Bill Dixon

“In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.”

Ifs Made President Solutions Forgiving Rewards Compromise Voters Tumult

Author:Ron Fournier

“Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.”

Has Beens Use Purpose Principles Compromise Disgusting Immaculate Manipulator

Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.”

Long Government Democrat Size Compromise Reducing Size Of Government

Author:Ted Cruz

“Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.”

Has Beens Stills Dream Realizing Objects Ambition Built Compromise Surround Dismay

Author:Rick Bass

“There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.”

Lines Risk Brave Compromise Hostage Irresponsibility Calculated Risk Capitulation

Author:Ehud Barak

“We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.”

Way Compromise Norway

Author:Kjell Magne Bondevik

“The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.”

People Thinking Way Trying Art Problem Individual Records Dangerous Band Compromise

Author:T Bone Burnett

“I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.”

People Thinking Firsts Important Language First Time Complicated Handle Compromise Important Questions

Author:Aidan Chambers

“You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can’t compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, “They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.” It’s complete intolerance.”

People Looks Kind Different Country Evil Sides Animal Terrible Compromise Good And Evil Different Kinds Intolerance Down The Road Purgatory

Author:Gary Ackerman

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

People Believe Mean Politician Congress Compromise Capitulation

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“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.”

Knows World Sometimes Happens Jobs Singers Compromise Saying No

Author:Jose Carreras

“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.”

Policy Holy Environmental Compromise Ecosystems

Author:David James Duncan

“Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.”

Party Planets Capable Tables Size Compromise Fixed Living On Negotiating

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.”

Country President Weapons Europe Nuclear Compromise Aspiration Chemicals Allies President Obama Nuclear Weapons Tactical Deterrent

Author:Frank Gaffney

“I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.”

Levels Audience Mass Standards Come Up Compromise Not Interested

Author:Don Ellis

“There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.”

Art Light Media Shining Entertainment Compromise Horizon Load

Book:Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography

Source: Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography

“Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.”

Inspirational Wells Principles Compromise Truthful Beneficial Meek

Author:Confucius

“Don't compromise your heart for something crass.”

Heart Advice Compromise Crass

Author:Rodney Crowell

“I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.”

Compromise Capricorns

Author:Carolina Herrera

“I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.”

Helping Compromise Consensus Bipartisan Bipartisanship

Author:Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

“I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.”

Ifs Thinking Want Hard Jobs Actors Known Hard Work My Friends Workers Compromise Hard Worker

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.”

Want Persons Belief Difficult Acting Careers Compromise Firm Things To Do Difficult Things

Author:Angus T. Jones

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