Felix Frankfurter Quotes

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.

We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

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 labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

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

If we should come to an issue with the world, let us keep it off as long as possible.

It would win for us a proud title—we would become the first aggressors for peace.

We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering and bloodshed that follows and the collapse of economic and social development leads to tragic consequences.

Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

Every fight has its rough spots, and I'm always looking for improve every facet.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.

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