Herbie Hancock Quotes

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

Without game, men prey on each other.

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

Just because you are adversaries or opponents in politics doesn't mean you have to be enemies.

Enduring peace will come about, not by countries continuing to threaten another, but only through an honest effort to create mutual trust.

The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting …

One’s right cancels out another’s right.

True and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

Living together is an art.