Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Negotiation is not a solution and will not solve anything. Those who think of negotiation when they are threatened only reveal their weakness and incapability. That is a bad move.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

Conciliation is the enemy.

When a rising power confronts a ruling power, bad things usually happen.... This is what happens when an extablished entity faces an upstart.... To avoid a disasterous clash like war, both parties have to make an adjustment, but the ruling power has to make more painful adjustments.

Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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

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

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

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.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

I can't really fight.

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.