
Never argue with an idiot, they will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
- Topic: Conflict
- Location: Lake Utah
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Mark Twain
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
› Mark Twain
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.
› Mark Twain
There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
› Mark Twain
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
› Mark Twain
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More on Conflict
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
› Benjamin Franklin
I rebel; therefore I exist.
› Albert Camus
Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.
› Nelson Mandela
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
› Thomas Paine
True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
› Colin Powell
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
› John Stuart Mill
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
› Samuel Adams
