Danielle Trussoni Quotes

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

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

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from quarrel; but every fool will quarrel

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

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.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.

Most of my fights are intelligent.

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.