Meles Zenawi Quotes

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

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

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.

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?

There's always a way to talk.

Talk brings opponents together.

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

In all circumstances in the world - even the most difficult circumstances - we need to push for dialogue.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

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

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 can work through a lot of these issues.

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

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

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.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.

I talk to business; I talk to labor. I talk to everybody.

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

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

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

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.