Top 235 Compromised Quotes & Sayings

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

We've done exactly what we've wanted. We never compromised to anyone and still managed to have a successful thing. I don't take that lightly. Yeah, we're really lucky to have had that.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.

I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

I never compromised myself musically.

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

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

I have never compromised on fundamentals. I've always believed in focusing on creating value and not valuation.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

I think that sometimes we have compromised quality content for the fear of Christianity, and I think that they both can co-exist.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

During my childhood my family risked a lot financially. They put every single penny they could into my racing and also their free time was completely compromised.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.