Concessions Quotes

• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Compromise, Reciprocal

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Conscious

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• Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

  Howard Hughes

  Soccer, Way, Compromise

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• I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving, Substance, May

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego: Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside”, p.58, eKitap Projesi

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• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Weakness, Weak

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle.

  George W Truett

  Differences, Atheism, Liberty

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• Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Peace, Grace, Effects

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• To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

  Erich Auerbach

  Writing, Technique, Difficult

  Erich Auerbach (1957). “Mimesis”

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• The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Government, Should

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

  Coco Chanel

  Ideals

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

  George Santayana

  Suffering, Institutions, Rational

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.424, Indiana University Press

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

  John Hurt

  Believe

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

  Howard Raiffa

  Advice, Partners, Bargaining

  Howard Raiffa, John Richardson, David Metcalfe (2002). “Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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• Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weakness, Violence, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Desire, Holes, Eros

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

  Julian Schnabel

  Focus, Different, Attention

  Source: collider.com

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• If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.
  Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

  Ariel Sharon

  Inspirational, Business, Real

  "Report: Sharon willing to make 'painful concessions'", edition.cnn.com. April 13, 2003.

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• We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Family, Sake, Taste

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.206

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• If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.

  John C. Calhoun

  Feet, Yield, Broken

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• It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

  Thucydides

  People, Looks, Politics

  Thucydides (1970). “Athens at war”, Putnam Aeronautical Books

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• concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

  Thucydides

  Self, Chance, Ends

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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

  Charles Cumming

  Complicated, Term

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• You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

  Anthony Eden

  Peace, May, Way

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist, Symphony, Lord

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

  Barack Obama

  Political, United States, Credit

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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