“The devil is compromise.”

The majority never has right on its side.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing.

We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel… Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.