Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

- Andy Warhol

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

- Ayrton Senna

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

- August Wilson

We have learned a long time ago that one cannot compromise with terrorists.

- Ariel Sharon

One must remember that the Jews have one, tiny country, the only place they have the right and capability to defend themselves by themselves. And it is our duty and my responsibility to see that we will never compromise about that.

- Ariel Sharon

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

- Ariel Sharon

But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.

- Ariel Sharon

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

- Anthony Fauci

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

- Allen West

We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

- Alex Pareene

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

- Abraham Lincoln

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

- Angela Merkel

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

- Andrew Cuomo

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

- Andrew Carnegie

Compromise, n. 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.

- Ambrose Bierce

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

- Alan Sugar

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

- Alan Dershowitz