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

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

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

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.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

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

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

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

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.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

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.

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

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

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

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

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

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.

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

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

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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

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?

Debates, I hate.

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

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.

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?

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

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.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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.

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

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.