Konrad Adenauer Quotes

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.

Listen, my friends, I am a friend of the white people and have been so for a long time. I do not want to see blood spilt about this agency. I am going north to my own country. If you are going to send your soldiers after me, I wish you would let us get a little distance away. Then if you want to fight, I will fight you, and we can make the ground bloody at that place.

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

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.

War is what happens when language fails.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside the lion.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realized they can't get away with it.

The superior power may offer peace with honor and with safety.

Conciliation is the enemy.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Peace at any price

Come now, and let us reason together or you shall be devoured by the sword.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired. but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

It might be, gentlemen, that the lion and the lamb would be down together, but ... the lamb would be inside the lion.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.