Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Fire is the most tolerable third party

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

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

I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering.

One should not maintain a dispute.

For many years I have known a good deal about international arbitrations and I have never known of one in which both nations in controversy did not benefit more from having the question between them settled than either gained from a favorable judgment or lost by an unfavorable one.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

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

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

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