Dustin Poirier Quotes

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

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

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

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

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

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

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.

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

There is never a military solution to any problem.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

I differ in my ideas from most of our people on the subject of retaliation. Sometimes I know it to be necessary, but it should not be resorted to at all times, and in our case policy dictates that it should be avoided whenever possible.

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

Negotiations in pain and frustration for 5 years is better than bullets for 5 minutes.

I want peace [in my administration] and I am told that your friend Theodore [Roosevelt]—whom I know only slightly—is always getting into rows with everybody. I am afraid he is too pugnacious.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.

The John Lewis I know is a peacemaker.

Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.

My way to fight is finish.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.