Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

I've got my own mind, and I'll talk about it, but I'm willing to listen. I'm very balanced like that. If you don't want a guy who's balanced, who wants to win, and can bring people together well... I don't know.

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of “peaceful co-existence.”

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

In accommodation with other Powers, differences of opinion must be looked for, even those most agreed on the same general views.

One’s right cancels out another’s right.

The way to disarm is to disarm....

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

Living together is an art.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.