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

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?

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

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

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

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Example is leadership.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

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

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.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

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

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

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

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

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.

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

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

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

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.

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

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Enemies are so stimulating.

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.

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

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

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

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

Let my enemies devour each other.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

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

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

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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

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

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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.

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.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Disagreement is something normal.

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