Thomas Hardy Quotes

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

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.

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Issuing an ultimatum is not negotiation.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

UN administrators ... think that no problem in the world is too intractable to be solved by negotiation. These mandarins fail to grasp that men with guns do not respect men with nothing but flapping gums ... Just as the US Marine Corps breeds warriors, so the UN’s culture breeds conciliators.

It's not my nature to dominate and bully.

It's nice to hit and not be hit back.

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.