Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

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

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

There's always a way to talk.

You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.

Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

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.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

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

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

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

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

Negotiations take time.

What matters is not whether one talks to adversaries but what one says to them, which strategies of engagement are set in place, and how competently they are executed.

Negotiators run the risk of achieving agreement and then having to take yes for an answer when they are emotionally accustomed to confrontation.

There is never any military solution to any problem. Even when you have total victory you still have to go in and talk to people.

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 object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.