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Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.
— Renate Bridenthal
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Thucydides
Exceptional people deserve special concessions.
— Jenny Holzer
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
— Charles Cumming
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.
— Julian Schnabel
There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation.
— Francois Hollande
But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions.
— Anthony Trollope
Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
— Neil Young
To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.
— Barack Obama
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
— Edmund Burke
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
— Edmund Burke
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.
— Sebastian Horsley
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.
— John Stuart Mill
Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.
— Chris Christie
We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection ...
— Eugenie De Guerin
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.
— Vladimir Lenin
He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.
— Sigmund Freud
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
— George Santayana
Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.
— Jose Saramago
Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.
— William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.
— Carol Loomis
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
— Thucydides
Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.
— Howard Raiffa
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
— Erich Auerbach
If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.
— James Monroe
T he people and all their leaders ought to know t h at historical law which lays down t h at certain concessions are t he cloak for a tighter rein
— Anonymous
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
— Karl Kraus
Just the opposite for me, all is drowned in poetic impression; I am ready for all concessions. Suddenly
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.
— Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.
— Barack Obama