Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".