Concessions – Quotes

If you want to

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

We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism. Ezra Taft Benson

We all owe each

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

To write history is

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

Capital, never concerned with

Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing … Read more

This is a wrong

This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat. Enver Hoxha

All the concessions we

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

Each concession we make

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. Emile M. Cioran

I think the reasons

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, … Read more

The concessions of the

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Edmund Burke