Quotes About Compromise

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

Living at peace with everyone...is not an option, it's an obligation.

We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

It takes two to make peace.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Three can hold their peace, if two be away.

We can have peace, but if we continue to hold out, we can obtain more.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.