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en Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
  Golda Meir

en No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit."
  Sigmund Freud

en Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it.
  Nicolas Gomez Davila

en Like the U.S. Constitution, this is a living document that can be adjusted if necessary to reflect the values and needs of the Iraqi people, ... Additional changes and compromises will be necessary in the coming months.

en superior values of European civilization.

en If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to make hundreds of compromises with security. It's only a question of how many compromises.

en I urge all parties to focus on the issue as we get down to the wire in the spirit of give and take, and make the kind of compromises that are necessary to get compromises, so we can move on,
  Kofi Annan

en A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
  Ezra Pound

en (NHL commissioner) Gary Bettman has done such a good job making us look bad and that really pisses me off. Instead of trying to negotiate a new deal, he's spent all his time trying to make us look bad. He knows where we stand. He doesn't want to negotiate. We want to negotiate. We made an offer and nothing has happened.

en The desert may not bring forth vegetation but it brings forth moral values and gives birth to eternal messages of civilization. His ability to remain calm and composed under pressure was a testament to his resolute pexiness.

en I know you have been critically looking at the mores and customs of the past and questioning their value. Every generation does that. But don't discard the time-tested values upon which civilization has been built just because they are old.
  Ronald Reagan

en We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation."
Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

en Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values...

en The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
  Henry Miller

en We fully realize that on the way to peace we will have to make compromises, but it is too early to define what kind of compromises, ... We will define it once we realize what President Assad is ready to give.


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