Quotes about Compromise

Making a few vocal customers happy isn't worth it if it ruins the product for everyone else.

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—

It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.

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.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

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.

Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.