Konrad Adenauer Quotes

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

Here no one fears to die in war … keep this in mind, you princes who would attack Tenochtitlan.

Peace at any price

We shall never war except for peace.

Peace at any price.

Listen, my friends, I am a friend of the white people and have been so for a long time. I do not want to see blood spilt about this agency. I am going north to my own country. If you are going to send your soldiers after me, I wish you would let us get a little distance away. Then if you want to fight, I will fight you, and we can make the ground bloody at that place.

Peace without surrender.

I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.

Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.

The way forward in the Middle East, as it has been around the world and throughout history, is communication. There must be direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, mediated by the United States.

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

No one wants peace more than me.

Something that truly frustrates me is the impression in Israel that when you are talking about security, you are bold; you are tough: this is what we need against all the enemies that we have. And when someone is talking about peace, you know, it's the naive left wing, soft.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.

In a marriage, we have to accommodate each other's views.

If appeasing other nations means that we need to begin acting like them, you can count me out.

Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Accommodation is a willingness to maintain constructive relationship with others with whom one is in serious and even intractable disagreement. Social cooperation would come under impossible pressure if it always depended on strict agreement.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

It must be a peace without victory