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It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. -- John Keegan
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. -- Karel Capek
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. -- John Sergeant Wise
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. -- Woodrow Wilson
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic. -- Billy Sunday
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. -- James Mark Baldwin
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. -- Malcolm X
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties. -- Manny Farber
My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite. -- Natsuo Kirino
Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises. -- Gunter Grass
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. -- William Lloyd Garrison
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise. -- Benazir Bhutto
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. -- Bette Davis
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. -- George Santayana
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. -- Eric Hoffer
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone -- Ayn Rand
The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself. -- Malcolm X
It's fair to say that, by 'X-Men 3,' Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He's not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He's an anti-hero. And, there's also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there. -- Hugh Jackman
I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans. -- Francis Frangipane
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. -- Gunter Grass
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job. -- Carey Mulligan
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams. -- Woodrow Wilson
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste. -- Stephane Rolland
Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science. -- Martin Rees
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. -- Vince Cable
Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane--in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath--she had probably put herself in unnecessary danger. -- Amor Towles
I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing. -- David Foster
I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. -- Jimmy Page
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others. -- Rob Lowe
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour. -- Giles Andreae
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. -- Herman Melville
And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions? -- Vladimir Lenin
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience. -- John Sculley
You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction. -- T.F. Hodge
I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity. -- Glenn Beck
Being upright and uncompromising will lead to unemployment by themselves. But to be willfully ignorant of a calling in life as well, that is the denial of a born alcoholic. -- Bauvard
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We think of mortality so little these days...I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,As you are now so once was I:As I am so will you be... -- Tana French
Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart.But then she felt betrayal, she hated, and she was feared.Hate gave her power. -- Rachel Cohn
This was a mouth that had suffered many slings and arrows along with the occasional thrashing and several hundredweight of tobacco and Cadbury's milk chocolate. This was a mouth through which a great deal of life had passed at, it would appear, an uncompromising speed. -- Bill Buford
The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land. -- Erich Fromm
The truth is uncompromising. -- Leonard Jacobson
I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals. -- Diana Nyad
Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional and uncompromising. Every winning team has it. -- Dan McCarney
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm. -- David Bezmozgis
Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. -- Albert Camus
You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity. -- Debasish Mridha
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas. -- Albert Einstein
I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty. -- Carrie Brownstein
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. -- Andre Gide
Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself. -- Liza Campbell
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising. -- Vincent de Paul
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor. -- Albert Einstein
Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes. -- Nelson Mandela
The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made. -- Michael Gira
Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations. -- Azim Premji
... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods. -- Toni Cade Bambara
The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody. -- James Joll
Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad. -- Justin Timberlake
We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising. -- Eric Hoffer
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation -- Sunday Adelaja
Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now. -- James I. Robertson, Jr.
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me. -- Agnes Repplier
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury. -- James H. Cone

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