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?

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

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

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

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

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

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

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

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

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

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

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

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

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

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

‚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!

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.