Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
Eckhart Tolle
Win through your actions, never through argument.
Robert Greene
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?.
Abraham Lincoln
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck
To be between the hammer and the anvil.
French proverbs
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
Many are brave when the enemy flees.
Italian proverbs
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Desmond Tutu
When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
African proverbs
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
William Shakespeare
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois