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

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

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

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

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

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

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’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

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

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

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

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

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.

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

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.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

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

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

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’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

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.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.