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

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

Dignity, Human, Human Dignity, Make

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

Nature, Heart, History, Man, Past, You

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

You, Forward, Start, Country, Writing

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

Constitution, Property, Slave, United

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

History, Man, Intellectual, Surrender

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

Avoid, Extremes, Bipartisanship, Causes

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

Struggle, Beginning, Think, Political

The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises. Elliott Abrams

Power, Security, Unfair, Without, Some

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

Truth, Acceptance, Never, Your, Awaits

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

Start, Process, Way, Will, Like, Happen

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

People, Limits, Reality, Political, Our

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all. Benazir Bhutto

Life, Justice, Foundation, Liberty

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

People, Think, Famous, Someone, Person

I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that. Kevin Hart

Time, I Am, Busy, You, Lucky, Understand

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

People, Problem, Management, You, Hacker

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

Slavery, New, Party, Forever, California

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises. Tamora Pierce

Women, Culture, Men, Acceptance, Think

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Bliss Carman

Facts, Fact, Investigation, Where, Point

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

Government, Deepest, Country, Moral, Our

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved! Marquis de Lafayette

Patriotism, Violence, Fools, Weak, Show

Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market. Angela Merkel

Good, Past, Reach, Never, Shoulder, Same

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

Peace, Live, World, Country, Decisions

Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against. Kevin Mitnick

Difficult, Person, Key, Against, Hear

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises. Aung San Suu Kyi

Culture, Achieve, Weak, Ability, Been

I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars. Penelope Cruz

Love, Stars, Time, Great, Vision, Long

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change. Simon Mainwaring

Change, Environmental, People, Thinking

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