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

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.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

No violent extreme endures.

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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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.

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

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

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

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

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.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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.

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.

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

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

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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

Enemies are so stimulating.

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?

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

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

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.

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

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

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

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.

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.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.