#defeat

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

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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#adult #alone #defeat #eating #kind

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#non-violence #such #thing

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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We don't defeat evil by becoming evil. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#defeat #evil

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? ↗

— Virgil

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Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#altogether #apart #axis #cannot #defeat

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

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