Canelo Alvarez Quotes

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.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

I don't have to fight if I don't want to.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.

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

I don't like to fight.

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

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

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

Conciliation is the enemy.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

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

Listen, my friends, I am a friend of the white people and have been so for a long time. I do not want to see blood spilt about this agency. I am going north to my own country. If you are going to send your soldiers after me, I wish you would let us get a little distance away. Then if you want to fight, I will fight you, and we can make the ground bloody at that place.

When you get into a political fight, never try and kill your opponent. Leave him an exit way to escape with his dignity intact. Remember your enemy today you may need as an ally tomorrow.

Better build them a golden bridge than offer a decisive battle.

The John Lewis I know is a peacemaker.

My way to fight is finish.

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

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