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

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.

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?

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Example is leadership.

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

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Enemies are so stimulating.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

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

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

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

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

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Disagreement is something normal.

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

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

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

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

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

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.

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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

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.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

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

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

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

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

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

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

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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.

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.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

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

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