Quotes about Negotiation
An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint.
— Jimmy Carter
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
— Jimmy Carter
If finite games must be externally bounded by time, space, and number, they must also have internal limitations on what the players can do to and with each other. To agree on internal limitations is to establish rules of play.
— James Carse
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
— St. Augustine
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
— Mark Twain
Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
— Barack Obama
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
— Alfred Nobel
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
— Nelson Mandela
The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
— Barack Obama
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
— Winston Churchill
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
— St. Augustine