Janet Reno Quotes

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

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

And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.

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

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

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.

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

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.

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

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

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

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

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.