Mediation, Mediating, Mediate Quotes

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Serbia must now be dealt with.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Diplomacy [is] ... the art of restraining power.

A soft answer turns away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger ;, .d. oratory;, .d. anger;, .d. debate;, A soft answer turns away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger

Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

It’s hard to cut a deal if you don’t know who to make a deal with.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

You want to get both sides of the story and it's my role to try and bring that out of people.

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

Negotiating is an art—it is a real art.

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.