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

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

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?

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.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

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.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

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

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

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

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.

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.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Example is leadership.

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

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

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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

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.

All men hate the nagging.

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.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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

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

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

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

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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.

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

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

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

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

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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

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

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

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

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