Negotiable Quotes

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. (Vartan Gregorian)
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Privacy is not negotiable. View quote
Paul Scofield
The American way of life is not negotiable. View quote
George H. W. Bush
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy . View quote
Karl Marx
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. View quote
M. John Harrison
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable. View quote
Barbara Jordan
To such a one, already filled with intellectual substance, and possessing what we may call the practical gold-bullion of human culture, it was an obvious improvement that he should be taught to speak it out of him on occasion; that he should carry a spiritual banknote producible on demand for what of "gold-bullion" he had, not so negotiable otherwise, stored in the cellars of his mind. A man, with wisdom, insight and heroic worth already acquired for him, naturally demanded of the schoolmaster this one new faculty, the faculty of uttering in fit words what he had. A valuable superaddition of faculty:-and yet we are to remember it was scarcely a new faculty; it was but the tangible sign of what other faculties the man had in the silent state. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. View quote
Michael Badnarik
When it comes to it, we shall have to make sovereignty negotiable, either by ceding it to the United Nations or arranging a transfer in some other way. ... Do not use that as an excuse for war. We cannot kill for flags today. View quote
Tony Benn
It is of the nature of all internecine violence that it lives on hope. Violence feeds upon the hope of success ... violence will not continue indefinitely where the objects which it proposes to itself appear to be unattainable, or at any rate unattainable within a predictable future. The Government in Northern Ireland and the Government in this country actually assist violence and strengthen it in so far as they appear to act and appear to reform under the pressure of violence... [The Government should ensure that] neither by word nor deed do we treat the membership of the Six Counties in the United Kingdom as negotiable. Every word or act which holds out the prospect that their unity with the rest of the United Kingdom might be negotiable is itself, consciously or unconsciously, a contributory cause to the continuation of violence in Northern Ireland. (Enoch Powell)
The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable. View quote
Barbara Jordan
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable. View quote
Edgar Ramirez
Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece. View quote
Lucas Papademos
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. View quote
Carrie Fisher
Freedom is not negotiable. View quote
Andy García
Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American. View quote
Jackie Speier
I am an Assyrian. That is not negotiable. View quote
Rosie Malek-Yonan
She's a woman, you're a dude. You're notto understand her. That'swhat she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand. She knowsimpossible. She just wants you to understand. Everything else is negotiable. View quote
Neal Stephenson
It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home. (Randa Abdel-Fattah)
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [(The White House, July 25, 1961)]. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Murder. The fifth commandment. But when you think about it... When you think about it, religion has never really had a big problem with murder. Not really. More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason. All you have to do... sure. Uh huh. All you have to do is look at Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Kashmir, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the World Trade Center to see how seriously the religious folk take «Thou shalt not kill». The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable. It depends on who's doin the killin' and who's gettin' killed. View quote
George Carlin