Quotes About Conciliation

Recordemos el viejo proverbio: "Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera".

White is willing to meet them halfway

Remember the old proverb: "By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

In talking with people, DON'T begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing—and keep on emphasizing—the things on which you agree.

Cuando hable con alguien, no empiece discutiendo las cosas en que hay divergencia entre los dos. Empiece destacando —y siga destacando— las cosas en que están de acuerdo. Siga acentuando —si es posible— que los dos tienden al mismo fin y que la única diferencia es de método y no de propósito. Haga que la otra persona diga "Sí, sí", desde el principio. Evite, si es posible, que diga "No".

El odio nunca es vencido por el odio sino por el amor", y un malentendido no termina nunca gracias a una discusión sino gracias al tacto, la diplomacia, la conciliación, y un sincero deseo de apreciar el punto de vista de los demás.

Ponte rápidamente de acuerdo con tu adversario".

Rarely has a diplomatic document so missed its objective as the Treaty of Versailles. Too punitive for conciliation, too lenient to keep Germany from recovering, the Treaty of Versailles condemned the exhausted democracies to constant vigilance against an irreconcilable and revanchist Germany as well as a revolutionary Soviet Union.

Rarely has a diplomatic document so missed its objective as the Treaty of Versailles. Too punitive for conciliation, too lenient to keep Germany from recovering

Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Dès lors qu'elle dépend à la fois de sa propre conscience et des opinions des autres, il faut qu'elle apprenne à comparer ces deux règles, à les concilier, et à ne préférer la première que quand elles sont en opposition. [...] Rien de tout cela ne peut bien se faire sans cultiver son esprit ou sa raison.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.

I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat

Our arses should be signs of peace!

Violence is my last option.

how about not fighting any? Negotiate, my lord. It's cheaper

Whenever the issue can be distinctly made, and all extraneous matter thrown out, so that men can fairly see the real difference between the parties, this controversy will soon be settled, and it will be done peaceably too. There will be no war, no violence.

Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.

Let us have peace.