Manning Marable Quotes

Sharon is capable of making peace.

We have had enough of meetings for meetings’ sake in the Middle East.

I started to fight with the men. I raised my voice, and they started listening to me.

Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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

War is like government, a matter of tact.

I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.