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

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

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.

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

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.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

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.

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.

Disagreement is something normal.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

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.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

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

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

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

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

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.‘

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

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

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

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

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

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.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

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

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

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

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

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

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

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

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

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

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.

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.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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

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

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

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

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

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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.