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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. -- Jalal Talabani
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation. -- Emanuel Cleaver
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation. -- Ehud Barak
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. -- George P. Shultz
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally. -- James Gustave Speth
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. -- Steig Larsson
There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise. -- Salman Rushdie
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat. -- George Bernard Shaw
a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day. -- Luis de Camoes
Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . . -- Jim Morrison
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping. -- Kate Christensen
Vladimir Putin uses fascist propaganda to do so. From Ukraine to Syria, he is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation. -- Garry Kasparov
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade. -- R. Scott Bakker
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president. -- William Kristol
I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people. -- Adolf Hitler
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence. -- Elif Safak
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. -- George P. Shultz
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation. -- C. L. R. James
Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation. -- Mitch McConnell
I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation. -- Amos Oz
I loved begging him, following his rules. I loved the freedom I found in complete capitulation. -- Penny Reid
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. -- Steig Larsson
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy. -- J. Budziszewski

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