“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Taito Waradi Fijian businessman

15 May 2000
Comments on the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission

“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed”

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher

“Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.”

John Buchan book The Path of the King

Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", II

“When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which he organizes given facts and shapes them into a theory. The methods and categories as well as the transformation of the theory can be understood only in connection with his taking of sides. This, in turn, discloses both his sound common sense and the character of the world. Right thinking depends as much on right willing as right willing on right thinking.”

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) German philosopher and sociologist

Source: "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937), p. 162.

“… spread on a plane the surface of a sphere in such a way that the positions of all places shall correspond on all sides with each other both in so far as true direction and distance are concerned and as concerns true longitudes and latitudes.”

Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) cartographer, philosopher and mathematician

Legend on 1569 map

“To change our idea of the world is the crux of shamanism. And stopping the internal dialogue is the only way to accomplish it.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)

“Only through dialogue and exchanges and mutual respect can we promote goodwill and resolve the estrangement between the two sides of the strait.”

Eric Chu (1961) Taiwanese politician

Source: Eric Chu (2021) cited in " KMT's Chu laments Nicaragua switch to Beijing https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202112100014" on Focus Taiwan, 10 December 2021.