Reconciliation

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
- Charles Williams

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations... is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
- James Earl Carter, Jr

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, 1759 - 1805

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.
- Corazón Cojuangco Aquino

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
- Qu'ran 42:40

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
- Stefan Zweig, 1881 - 1942