Quotes About Mediation

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

All middle men are bad.

It stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement.

He is the one who taught how to distinguish contradictions in order to mediate them harmoniously. Once the trick was clear, they thought that Thomas's lesson was this: Where yes and no are opposed, create a "nes.

Wisdom is the thin conduit between two opposing viewpoints

This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class. It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: "The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart." —T. vH.

That Brain and Hands no longer understand each other will one day destroy the New Tower of Babel. "Brain and Hands need a mediator. The Mediator between Brain and Hands must be the Heart. . . .

If love in society is to represent a better one, it cannot do so as a peaceful enclave, but only by conscious opposition. This, however, demands precisely the element of voluntariness that the bourgeois, for whom love can never be natural enough, forbid it. Loving means not letting immediacy wither under the omnipresent weight of mediation and economics, and in such fidelity it becomes itself mediated, as a stubborn counter-pressure. He alone loves who has the strength to hold fast to love.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

I'm not big with negotiating.

Monaco's neutrality is one of our main attributes - the role of small countries is to act as go-betweens between big nations.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

The libidinal fantasy-stream only becomes significant for other people, i.e. capable of mediation, if it is socialised through fusion with the canon, while at the same time energizing and individualizing the canon or the conscience.

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied

Only in the movies or comic books do people say they want you to go and hit somebody. All they ever say is that they want you to go straighten a matter out. They say they want you to do whatever you've got to do to straighten a matter out.

Dialogue still reigns supreme as a method for connection and conflict resolution.

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

God mediates his revelation to human beings in such a way that he accommodates his self-revealing to human knowing and adapts human knowing to receive and apprehend what he reveals in ways that are appropriate to it.