Reconciliation Quotes (135 Quotes)

Despite our repeated goodwill to seek reconciliation, cooperation and peace on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the other side shows no respect for the feelings of the Taiwan people and rudely forces Taiwan to accept communist China's 'one China' and 'one country, two systems',

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction the kindling of passions, not their pacification the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

Reconciliation is everyone recognising and treating each other as equals, and everyone must be responsible for their own actions.

These companies just don't understand that reparations activists are not after apologies and racial reconciliation. They want money.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

I want everyone here to note that I'm wearing pink for this occasion, pink, the color of soothing, softening and reconciliation. Lately it's become Dick's favorite color replacing his old favorite, terror-alert red.

We need peace between the government and the SLA and we need tribal reconciliation. There is no need to wait for a result in Abuja. You can start here. At some point you have to stop the killing and reconcile among the tribes.

The world is a better place because of you. You thrilled us as a fighter and you inspired us even more as a force for peace and reconciliation, understanding and respect. No one was ever more beautiful or brash or bright or powerful or fast in the ring. It was breathtaking.

We are saying what we have always said - that the political parties and the monarchy have to work together and take forward the process of reconciliation and dialogue and develop a national consensus.

There is no good alternative to a peace agreement. There is no more stable peace than one based on an agreement. The time has come for the Palestinians to come to terms, as we have with the realization of only part of their dreams, to stop terror, to stop hatred, to create their own fair and democratic lives and look to a future of reconciliation, compromise and peace with us.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

The idea is that reconciliation is absolutely essential in Iraq. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

We need reconciliation. There were hundreds of ordinary people in the ranks of the Taliban. If we give them a chance, they will work for the future of the country rather than fighting against it.

The newly elected government that I will lead will focus on further strengthening institutions, employment and improving the economic position of all citizens of Kosovo. We will work to create a bridge of trust between the communities in Kosovo. The time of hatred, discrimination and suffering of all citizens of Kosovo should belong to the past. The time of inter-ethnic reconciliation, integration and overall prosperity has come.

Peru needs reconciliation, but it can't be done like this. Peru cannot be kidnapped by the military commanders and you cannot permit negotiations with a gun to your head.

The Jewish Anti-Defamation League is unhappy with what's contained in 'Memory and Reconciliation,' because they believe it still fails to admit the church's corporate responsibility for any complicity in the Holocaust. It lays the blame on flawed humans -- although the document uses the term 'generations' to imply this wasn't simply a few bad apples -- rather than admitting any flaws on the part of the church itself.

The likelihood of that is remote because this is one relationship where ... you don't have difficulty in reconciling principle and practice or the vital national interests with values.

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

They've directed us to move ahead first with our program of reconciliation and development, so the goal for a better life for all is achieved sooner rather than later.

Canada also calls for, as essential elements of the reconciliation process in Ethiopia, the immediate release of political detainees and the due process of all others detained,

The main danger is that the constitution ratifies and exacerbates the sectarian divisions within the country, ... Both the process through which it was done and the content are deepening the divide between Kurds and Shiites on one side and the Sunnis on the other. If the constitution is only approved by only two of the three communities, it will only be a confirmation of Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divisions rather than an attempt to overcome them. This has not advanced the process of reconciliation it has only more likely is a step backward.

Violence or the threat of violence will not solve the problems of Northern Ireland. The only way forward to peace, political stability and reconciliation is through democratic means,

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

While, in our view, it would have been important to have a full public airing of views on the vital issues of reconciliation, we will respect the decision of the Algerian people as it is reflected in the balloting on this referendum,

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?

We are living in Iraq, a country that I love, in a very dangerous time. Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal.

Now there is a real chance that new Palestinian leaders will rise -- those who will be elected -- who will truly abandon the path of terror and instead will advance a strategy of reconciliation and negotiation without violence, terror and hatred,

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the bloody massacre that was committed in Gaza, and we urge the U. S. administration to condemn this vicious escalation and to stop this Israeli government from destroying any hope for peace and reconciliation.

Not even man that will re-find himself will be able to remove the vanity from this diabolic world, but he can change it from a vanity of his ideological debauchee into a vanity of self reconciliation. The divinity in man cannot admit vanity and thus it will try to replace it with new reasons for which we are born, but it will finally understand that everything is a big vanity and a great sin that no longer belongs to us but to the print that whispered our existence, full of the thorns of the moments that hunt us.

I believe with all my heart that there's a new wind blowing, ... It's the spirit of reconciliation, to make things right.

The UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) office illegally dealt with the issue ... beyond its authority, (and) thus laid obstacles in the process of the inter-Korean reconciliation.