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Quotes About Negotiation

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
~ Bertrand Russell
Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.
~ David Lloyd George
Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.
~ Serzh Sargsyan
Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.
~ Herman Cain
In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
~ Townsend Harris
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
~ Howard Zinn
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
~ Umberto Eco
War should always be the absolute last resort.
~ Joe Biden
There are times for making war and times for making peace.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.
~ Lawrence S. Wittner
Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.
~ Leanna Renee Hieber
No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Democracies don't go to war.
~ Manmohan Singh
War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
~ Margaret Mead
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
~ Mandy Patinkin
We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.
~ Max Brooks
One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan