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We want to see measures to implement taxation justice for ordinary working people. We want an end to the policy of many years now, of huge tax concessions for big corporations and a plethora of stealth taxes on ordinary families and ordinary working people.
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We retain nothing, although we have conquered everything...France is chiefly, if not solely, to be dreaded by us in the light of a maritime and commercial power; and therefore by restoring to her all the valuable West India islands, and by our concessions in the Newfoundland fishery, we have given her the means of recovering her prodigious losses and of becoming once more formidable to us at sea...all the Spanish treasures and riches in America, lay at our mercy.


— Speech against the Treaty of Paris (December 1762).

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   The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke

— 1775  On Conciliation with  America.

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Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

václav havel

— Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 110

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Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

howard raiffa

— Part II, Chapter 4, Analytical Models ans Empirical Results, p. 48

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" concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security."

Thucydides

— Book I, 1.34-[3]

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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

— p. 11 (An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889))

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"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

— Enver Hoxha, Reflections on China, 1962-1972, vol. I [1] (Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, 1979)

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I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.

muhammad reza pahlavi

— Page 52-53

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If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence . On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force . Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness .


— Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in "The Nobel Evening Address" in The Dalai Lama : A Policy of Kindness (1990), p. 115

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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke

— Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions (March 22, 1775).

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Evidence of concessions made for the purpose of settling matters in dispute, I shall never admit; but facts admitted before arbitrators I always shall.


— Lord Kenyan, Gregory v. Howard (1800), 3 Esp. 113.

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Cited in Nations and Internationalism Our Party supports and will continue to support peoples fighting for their freedom. In so doing, the Soviet Union does not look for advantages, does not hunt for concessions, does not seek political domination and is not after military bases. We act as we are bid by our revolutionary conscience, our communist convictions.


— Cited in Ussr and Countries of Africa

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concessions made for the purpose of settling the business for which the action is brought, cannot be given in evidence; but facts admitted I have always received.

kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon

— Turner v. Railton (1796), 2 Esp. 475.

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concessions made for the purpose of settling the business for which the action is brought, cannot be given in evidence; but facts admitted I have always received.

kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon

— Turner v. Railton (1796), 2 Esp. 475.

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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down. concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.


— An unpublished paper of 1907, as quoted in The Rising American Empire (1960) by Richard Warner Van Alstyne, p. 201; also quoted in On Power and Ideology (1987) by Noam Chomsky; accounts of this as being from a lecture of 15 April 1907 seem to be incorrect.

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concessions made for the purpose of settling the business for which the action is brought, cannot be given in evidence; but facts admitted I have always received.


— Lord Kenyon, Turner v. Railton (1796), 2 Esp. 475.

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" concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security."


— Book I, 1.34-[3]

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