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.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures – sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns – some organized by popular movements.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

War is the business of barbarians.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

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

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Forgotten is forgiven.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

People like to talk about war.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

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 can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.