Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

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

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

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.

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.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

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

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‚Happy Birthday.‘

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

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.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

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.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

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 hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

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.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.