Jalal Talabani
Politician
"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
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Concessions
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Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"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."
Jose Saramago
Writer
"Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning."
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"I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals."
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"Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious."
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