#compromise

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#mistakes

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#hell #incrementalism #hell

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#satan

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#compromise #ambition

Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#dream #principle #dreams

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#end #every #every man #impudent #man

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#art #bands #business #compromise #dangerous

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain. ↗

— Ken Burns

#choice #commercial #compromise #conscious #gain

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #contradictory #defeat #men

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #conversely #greater #i