Glover Teixeira Quotes

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

One should not maintain a dispute.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

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

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

You have to pick your battles on set.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument—and that is to avoid it.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

I just want to fight and not talk too much.

I don't want to be fighting when I don't want to fight.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Violence is my last option.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.