George R. R. Martin Quotes

It becomes a conqueror to conciliate.

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

The times call for patience, calm and compromise.

Men should give enemies leisure to flee.