William Shakespeare Quotes

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

For the sake of peace you have to accept risk.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

There are universal traits and aspects of all these conflicts, and I think that all of them have bridgeable solutions. The only question is whether you are ready to take the challenge, to pay the price, to compromise in order to get more. This, I believe, is the challenge for all the peacemakers in the world.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

It is easier to obstruct peace than it is to promote it.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

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.

Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.