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

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

Disagreement is something normal.

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

Theology is unnecessary.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

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

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.

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.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

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.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

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.

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

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.

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

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

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

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

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

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

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

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

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.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

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

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.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.