Quotes About Conciliation

Can we all get along?

We're not ashamed to use the word 'peace.'

Cordell Hull and other good Wilsonians who had pinned their faith on international law were outraged and frightened chiefly by Hitler's lies, by his contempt for treaties and all the machinery of conciliation.

My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.

One learns compromise by accepting the good with the bad.

May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.

After a while the desire of self-preservation gathered them into cities; but when they were gathered together, having no art of government, they evil intreated one another, and were again in process of dispersion and destruction. Zeus feared that the entire race would be exterminated, and so he sent Hermes to them, bearing reverence and justice to be the ordering principles of cities and the bonds of friendship and conciliation.

A pig won't meet another pig halfway, but a man will meet a man.

Violence is my last option.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

Religious wars are the most terrible wars because they are waged without any prospect of conciliation.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Come now, let us reason together.

I want to keep the peace. I want to be gentle, not confrontational.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

Solving a dispute often requires each side to back down a little, something else Theo had learned from his parents.

Learn the wisdom of compromise for it is better to bent a little than to break.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future