Concessions Quotes - Page 5

• When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions.

  Kshama Sawant

  Fighting, Joining, Movement

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

  Amos Oz

  Curiosity, Alternatives, Realization

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.

  Arthur Honegger

  Dream, Thinking, Two

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• [Vladimir] Putin spoke unabashedly about the importance of national sovereignty in Syria, a concept apparently near and dear to his heart, unless it comes to the sovereignty of Georgia, Ukraine or any other country in which he intervenes. Then he offered his cooperation, but without making any concrete concessions at all. And he didn't have to, either. He knows what he can rely on. He has assets that are more valuable than words: He has tanks in Ukraine, fighter jets in Syria - and Barack Obama in the White House.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Heart, White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.

  Torquil Campbell

  Thinking, Getting Older, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

  Jon Stewart

  Giving, Speech, Ends

  "This Is The Worst". Interview with Chris Matthews, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2007.

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• Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

  Barrett Brown

  Advantage, Politeness, Wells

  "Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny". Book by Barrett Brown and ‎Jon P. Alston, 2007.

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• The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.

  Michael Hastings

  People, Decision, Listening

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other side wants. Of course you've got to try to make peace with, and work with those who are your adversaries, but you don't just rush in, open the door, and say, "Here I am. Let's talk and make a deal."

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Work, Doors, Here I Am

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Leader, Reform, Negotiation

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• [The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Views, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

  Chris Christie

  Brother, Return, Clinton

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.

  Ella Baker

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Issues, Borders

  "Cain: 'President Threw Israel Under the Bus'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

  James K. Polk

  Peace, Independent, Together

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• 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, Privileged

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

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

  Gao Xingjian

  Want, Compromise, Ifs

  "Living without 'isms'" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Demand, Lasts, Diplomacy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社

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• Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

  Neil Young

  Philosophy, Down And, Drag

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• There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Wall, Law, Political

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• The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

  Adolf Hitler

  Dogma, Christianity, Worn

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public school teachers that no one will know how to look up Moore's voter registration card. Democrat.

  Ann Coulter

  Teacher, School, Role Playing

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• My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

  Haley Barbour

  Mother, Football, Brother

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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

  Jalal Talabani

  Compromise, Capitulation

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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