Quotes About Negotiation

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

War is what happens when language fails.

War is the trade of kings.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.