You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.
Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?