conflict resolution quotes

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

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

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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

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

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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

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

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

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

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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

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.

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

‚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!

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.

Disagreement is something normal.

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

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.

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

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

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

All men hate the nagging.

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

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

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

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

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

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.

A disagreement or incident involving someone who’s not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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.

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

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.

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

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

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

I used to get into a lot of fights.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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