Bhagat Singh Quotes

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Conciliation is the enemy.

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.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to 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.

Americans tend to go for it all. In international politics you can’t have it all. You have to compromise.

Compromise is an underrated virtue. The world is awash with dead people because politicians would not compromise.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

Negotiation is not a solution and will not solve anything. Those who think of negotiation when they are threatened only reveal their weakness and incapability. That is a bad move.

Leaders alone can rarely make peace. They have to bring people along.

Strong men know when to compromise.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

I don't believe in uselessly fighting for nothing.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.