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

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

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

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

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

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

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

Disagreement is something normal.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

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

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

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

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

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.

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

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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

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

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

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

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

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.

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?

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

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.

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.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

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.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Law is always better than war.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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

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.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

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.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.