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

-- Charles Handy

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“I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.”
“I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'”
“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.”

Source : 1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.
“I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.”
“I didn't say them things that I said.”
“There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.”
“Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.”
“Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.”

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