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Quotes about Compromise

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
- Edmund Burke
In politics the middle way is none at all.
- John Adams
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
- Joe Biden
The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.
- Stromae
Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
- AW Tozer
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."
- James Dobson
You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough
- William Ury
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill