My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.
I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.
When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.
