Michael Moore Quotes

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

There's not a problem we have that we can't talk out. We can't shout it out.

The belief in the therapeutic and redemptive force of dialogue depends on the assumption … that, after all, no idea is worth fighting over to the death and that we can always reach a position of accommodation if only we will sit down and talk it out

There's always a way to talk.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

War is what happens when language fails.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.