Quotes with compromises

  • Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
  • There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays.

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  • E. M. Cioran A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Brit Marling A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Günter Grass Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Bhagat Singh Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt 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.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Toni Morrison There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bliss Carman What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Benazir Bhutto When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Wendell Phillips Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.'' - infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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