The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed…

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

— Jalal Talabani

“Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.”

— George Washington

“A small compromise leads to another small compromise, and finally we wind up doing something that we do not really love. It's a sneaky…

— James Krenov

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“Conciliation now would only lead to future war. A negotiated peace rather than a peace dictated by the Allies “would jeopardize the moral position…

— Joseph E. Persico

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

— James G. Frazer

“Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truth’s absolutism, justice is a qualitative substance; it is not an absolute tenet.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart

— Confucius

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

— Jalal Talabani

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

— Salman Rushdie

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to…

— Bernard Crick

The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these…

— John Jay Chapman

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with…

— Anonymous

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

— Bernard Crick

“The Nazis were meticulous in creating a legal framework for their persecution of the Jews. This was gradually built up from 1933 with increasing…

— Agnes Grunwald-Spier