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Concessions Quotes

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

John Hurt
Believe, Concessions
Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Gao Xingjian
Want, Compromise, Concessions
"Living without 'isms'" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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

Jalal Talabani
Compromise, Capitulation, Concessions

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke
Fear, Weakness, Concessions
Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Samuel Johnson
Compromise, Reciprocal, Concessions
Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.133, Princeton University Press

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Jose Saramago
Dignity, Ends, Concessions

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

John Stuart Mill
Advantage, Motive, Concessions
John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (1970). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

Charles Cumming
Complicated, Term, Concessions

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Coco Chanel
Ideals, Concessions
Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Emile M. Cioran
Conscious, Concessions

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