Quotes of: Conciliation Keyword

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

Speech on Conciliation with America

The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; not p...

Speech on Conciliation with America

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

Henry Louis Gates

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Jalal Talabani

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

The Claw of the Conciliator

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

The Call of the Wild

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

Robert Toombs

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

Gustav Stresemann

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.

Hassan Nasrallah

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

James G. Frazer

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

Jalal Talabani

Un des problèmes essentiels qui se posent à propos de la femme, c'est la conciliation de son rôle reproducteur et de son travail producteur.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of pea...

Charles Albert Gobat

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.

The Claw of the Conciliator

Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear that they do not. Some are disquieted by incessant dreams, and a fortunate few are visited often by dreams of delig...

The Claw of the Conciliator

A king should first gain the confidence of the foe and when he has gained it should spring on him like a wolf. The foe should be struck down so effectively that he may never agin raise his head. The foe should be slain by the arts of conciliation, ex...

Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata