Quotes about Compromise

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

We've learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants, that his cause is the cause of whatever he may happen to regard as the True Church and that any compromise is a metaphysical Munich, an appeasement of Radical Evil.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

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

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

We too have arguments, but we don't really have any fights. Aamir and I don't carry our fights home.

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.