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.

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

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

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

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.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

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.

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

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.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

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

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

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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

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

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

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

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

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

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

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

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

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.

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.

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.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

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

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

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?

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.