Non-compromise Quotes

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

Justice to all, appeasement of none - our party believes in this.

San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.