Top 132 Concessions Quotes & Sayings

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

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

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

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

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

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

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

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

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

Regularly in music videos, I'll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I'm having to make concessions to meet in the middle.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.

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.

There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

I make no concessions to conformism.

We do not accept impositions and we are not willing to make concessions.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

The idea in collaborative bargaining is to negotiate without making concessions to each other, by looking for joint-gain options instead.

My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.

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

Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.

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

Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.

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

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

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's a war being waged on democracy and all social spheres and institutions that tend to defend it.

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of - I wouldn't call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

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.

We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.

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.

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

The international community has been extracting concessions from the weaker side suffering under the occupation. For decades, this strategy has done absolutely nothing for the Palestinians. Now they are demanding that Hamas go the same route. We will not accept that. Extracting concessions is not the key to achieving peace. Pressure must be exerted on the occupier.

Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for other such players making reciprocal concessions in other areas where it has relatively more at stake. Such trades are collectively rational insofar as they get each of the powerful players more of what it wants. But such trades are also dangerous because the whole international rule-system will become incoherent and therefore vulnerable to crises that will continue to become increasingly severe.

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

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.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

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

There is no country that has made as many concessions as Israel. Since 1967, we gave up territory that is three times the size of Israel. We showed willingness.

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.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong. It's the other way around; it will lead to more wars.

From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.

The Chapultepec Accord is a pact among concessionaires to protect concessions.

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

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

The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.