The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Laws are silent in time of war.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Example is leadership.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.