If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace. Ariel Sharon
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. Erich Auerbach
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. Emil Cioran
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Edmund Burke
This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat. Enver Hoxha
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist. Georg Brandes