Refusing all compromise handed Moses’s enemies the opening to destroy him.

Evidence

But Moses argued against compromise. If the principle behind his system was right, he said, there should be no compromising with it. Making exceptions, he said, would kill the whole plan. If the plan was based on salary standardization, then salaries really had to be standard—all salaries. … It was the moment Tammany had been waiting for. The Board of Estimate it controlled scheduled hearings on the standardization proposal. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 348

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Unusually dense as a study of the logic of principled refusal: Moses’ own best advisers urge gradualism, and he overrules them on abstract consistency—a pattern that will recur fatally throughout his career.
• XREF: connects to: Warring for God makes one’s opponents automatically God’s enemies. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1532

Broader Connections

• Warring for God makes one’s opponents automatically God’s enemies. #expands (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1532