Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

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.

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

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

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

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

Debates, I hate.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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

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?

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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

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.

Enemies are so stimulating.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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.

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

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

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

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

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

A disagreement or incident involving someone who’s not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.‘

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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.

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.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

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.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Law is always better than war.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.