Quotes about Negotiation

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.

You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

To make peace with an enemy, one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes your partner.

Two great critiques of modernity by biblical scholars are Walter Brueggemann's Texts Under Negotiation and Walter Wink's The Bible in Human Transformation.

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,