L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

I'm not good at compromise.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.