Nelson Mandela Quotes

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

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

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

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

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

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.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

The only safe way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

This is a breath of fresh air for our region—solving a political problem without resorting to violence …

I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence.

The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser. That's not what it's all about. It's to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others.

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

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

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

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