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When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. - Angela Merkel

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. Angela Merkel

Human Dignity, We Cannot

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state. Benjamin Netanyahu

Country, Here, Entitled

Somebody could send you an office document or a PDF file, and as soon as you open it, it's a booby trap and the hacker has complete control of your computer. Another major problem is password management. People use the same password on multiple sites, so when the hacker compromises one site, they have your password for everywhere else. Kevin Mitnick

Use, Another, Document

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. Abraham Lincoln

Abundance, Extension

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States. Jefferson Davis

United States, Southern

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance. Vernon Howard

Truth, Acceptance, Never

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. Robert Toombs

Republic, New Mexico, Other

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Bliss Carman

Tyranny, Fact, Could

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises. Bhagat Singh

Beginning, Through, Rather

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. John Dewey

Mental, Old, Reserves

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. Colin Powell

Country, Move, Making

I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality. Emmanuel Macron

Political, Touched, Our

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Julie Delpy

Romantic, Romance, Making

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. Helen Prejean

Country, Moral Values, Which

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Causes, Bipartisanship

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. John Mayer

Think, I Think, Based

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. Gunter Grass

Life, Art, Uncompromising

My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Country, Back, Part

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. James McGreevey

Innocent, Part, Electoral

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take. Michael Schumacher

Racing, Standard, Take

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning. Mitch McConnell

Process, Happen, Move

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. Rachel Cusk

Mediocrity, More, Even

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's? Abdullah II of Jordan

Hope, Why, Your

Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil. Terry Glavin

Devil, Against, Afghans

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them. Julian Schnabel

Reason, Been, Some

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway. Kjell Magne Bondevik

Find, Way, Norway

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