Let my enemies devour each other.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

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

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

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.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

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

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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

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

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

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

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

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

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.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

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

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

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

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

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

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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

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

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

‚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!

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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

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.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Enemies are so stimulating.

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

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

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

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?

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

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

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

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

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

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

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

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.