Vladimir Jabotinsky Quotes

The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.

The term negotiation implies compromise; painful concessions on the part of both parties.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

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

The secret of America is compromise. Compromise is a sign of weakness in any other country. In America it is a great strength.

The belief in the therapeutic and redemptive force of dialogue depends on the assumption … that, after all, no idea is worth fighting over to the death and that we can always reach a position of accommodation if only we will sit down and talk it out

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

We are disagreeing. We are failing to reach compromises. But we are not killing each other.

There are universal traits and aspects of all these conflicts, and I think that all of them have bridgeable solutions. The only question is whether you are ready to take the challenge, to pay the price, to compromise in order to get more. This, I believe, is the challenge for all the peacemakers in the world.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

Strong men know when to compromise.

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.

In any negotiation you have a wish list but then you proceed from where you can be.

There is no such thing as a happy compromise. Israelis and Palestinians cannot become one happy family because they are not one, not happy and not family either. They are two unhappy families who must divide a small house into even smaller apartments. The first step, is to sign peace with clenched teeth, and after signing the contract, start working slowly on a gradual emotional de-escalation on both sides.

No one pursuing reasonable goals and who is prepared to compromise can argue that terrorism is his or his group's only option.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

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

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.

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

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.