Dominique de Villepin Quotes

Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.

Finger pointing never got anything done!

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

If we are going to find reconciliation, it can’t be based on one group blaming the other. You can’t have one group feeling guilty and another group feeling defensive. You can’t have one side feeling shame and the other group feeling anger.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

The two sides should … stop blaming the other side and instead step back and consider what in their own behavior has contributed the derailment..

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.

I always tell people you can't make peace half way: to make peace with somebody, you have to make peace and bury the hatchet, or you just keep fighting forever.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Peace is produced by war.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.