Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation.

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

There is always competition for influence, but there are also opportunities for cooperation.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

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.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

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

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.