Florence Nightingale Quotes

Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.