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

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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.

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

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

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

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?

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.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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.

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.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

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

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

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

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

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.

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.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

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.

Disagreement is something normal.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

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

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

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.

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

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

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

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.

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

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

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

Law is always better than war.

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

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

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’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.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

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

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

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.

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.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

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

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

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

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.

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