Quotes About Conciliation

We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.

She was magnanimous to former opponents, never retaliating against supporters of her former husband or other adversaries, personal or official.

There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it.

by saying little, he underscored his position as honest broker and permitted the antagonists to vent their anger.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

She looked for common ground. She did not nurse grudges.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.

En muchos casos, llamarle a uno bueno no indica más que docilidad, tendencia a no llevar la contraria y a no causar problemas.

When you reach across the aisle and open your heart and mind, you might just find that you have more in common than you think with the guy on the other side of the fence.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Let's find those people whose names do not cause controversy in our present and in our future. Let's name the monuments and streets for those people whose names do not provoke conflict.

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

I don't look for a fight or look for animosity or tension where it's not needed.

Drink and I have had some long and painful conversations and found we simply can't agree.' 'Drink and I can't agree either.' She shrugged and tossed it down herself. 'But we keep on having the argument.

Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Not only in Tracts is a child a peacemaker.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

We act in the interest of peace.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.