Concessions Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concessions Demand Diplomacy Lasts Peacebuilding Ultimatum
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“In the art of negotiation, listen twice, speak once, and let the silence work for you.” “The power of negotiation isn’t in what you… — Vorng Panha Copy Share Image
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage? — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If we are to reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent,… — 1st Baron St Helens Alleyne FitzHerbert Copy Share Image
I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to govern, which… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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