Quotes About Mediation

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

Long before art and science and philosophy arose, consciousness had but one function: not to merely implement motor commands, but to mediate between commands in opposition. In a submerged body starving for air, it's difficult to imagine two imperatives more opposed than the need to breathe and the need to hold your breath. As one Prismatic told me, "Put yourself in one of those things, and tell me you aren't more intensely conscious than you've ever been in your life.

Long before art and science and philosophy arose, consciousness had but one function: not to merely implement motor commands, but to mediate between commands in opposition.

The Well taught us how to create a civilized space for debate, speak in our own voices, use our real names, mediate flame wars, and boot trolls. Brand's mantra was, 'You own your own words,' meaning you have the right to say your piece but must also take responsibility for what you say.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

If we're fighting, we call Khloe. She's our peacemaker. Kourtney keeps us down-to-earth.

I've always been a peacemaker.

Shopping would be a relationship between the customer and the goods, with nothing and no one mediating between them.

Dwelling. Miles repeated the word to himself. It was a strange word.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

I've been in Scotland more lately than any of you. I tell you, there are twenty sides in that fight, never mind two, and when they get tired throwing things at each other, they'll all turn and stamp on the mediator.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

In love the individual goes beyond himself, beyond the narcissistic. In sex, you are really in a relationship with yourself via the mediation of the other. The other helps you to discover the reality of pleasure. In love, on the contrary, the mediation of the other is enough in itself.

I've long been interested in how technology mediates desire and the way that our phones, an extension of ourselves, foster intimate interactions that feel so personal and deep, despite being relayed through a machine.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.