Amos Oz Quotes

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

Peace cannot be unilateral.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

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

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Social peace requires reciprocity.