It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

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.

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

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

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.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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

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

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

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.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

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.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

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

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.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

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

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

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

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.