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"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."
- Handy, Charles

"Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."
- Knight, Charles

"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
- Bloch, Arthur

"Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness."
- Unknown, Source

"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned."
- Sumner, Charles

"I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. "
- Ford, Gerald R.

"Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity."
- Russell, Bertrand

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
- Joplin, Janis

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."
- Grass, Gunther

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."
- Herbert, George

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."
- Monson, Thomas S.

"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."
- Unknown, Source

"It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man."
- Hubbard, Elbert

"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
- Moliere

"A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect."
- Cioran, E. M.

"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."
- Swindoll, Charles

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

"Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way."
- Unknown, Source

"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
- Carman, Bliss

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
- Burke, Edmund

"Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward."
- Kaufman, Reginald W.

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
- Ruskin, John

"Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."
- Phillips, Wendell

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism."
- Ingersoll, Robert Green

"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece."
- Erhard, Ludwig

"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both."
- Edwards, Tryon

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship."
- Lowell, James Russell

"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."
- Lewis, Wyndham

"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."
- Butler, Samuel

"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf."
- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

"I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
- Unknown, Source

"Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Compromise. 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."
- Bierce, Ambrose

"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."
- Dewey, John

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination."
- Durrell, Lawrence

"Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises."
- Jameson, Storm

"There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He [Tom Brown] never wants anything but whats right and fair; only when you come to settle whats right and fair, its everything he wants, and nothing that you want. And thats his idea of a compromise. "
- Hughes, Thomas

"I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation. "
- Ford, Gerald R.

"There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. "
- Hoffer, Eric