Social Compromise Quotes

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

[Sometimes] the minorities are too respectable, not to be entitled to some sacrifice of opinion, in the majority.

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like the worst trade-off in my mind.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views …

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.

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.

A party is no place for a crank. If he cannot compromise and go forward, he should flock alone.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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

No man can have society upon his own terms.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

The community as a whole is better off or worse off according to whether or not the next generation is raised under circumstances that are more likely to produce productive citizens rather than parasites and criminals. Indeed, the less fortunate are the hardest hit by the consequences when social standards are compromise or jettisoned for the sake of cosmic concepts of equality.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

You can't please all the people all the time.

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.