Silence gets your point across better than anything else
In a previous post I mention how you don't have to prove yourself to anyone.
And to add to this train of thought, you also don't have to say anything to get your point across.
Silence is an answer, and it's the best answer you can give anyone.
It allows you to halt aggression, over explanation, and or arguments. Most importantly it allows you to take control of a conversations path.
If you don't like how someone is talking to you?
Be silent. Observe the other person.
What is it that you don't like about this moment in particular?
Keep your thoughts on the situation, observe and learn from it.
Most importantly reflect.
And in doing so, you avoid talking just to prove a point, and you will learn from others speech what is wrong in you yourself and you will (hopefully) begin to be cognizant enough to fix it.
Many people like hearing themselves talk.
They think they have lots of authority, of meaning in what they are saying.
And likely I am guilty of this as well, but at least I admit it.
If you admit it to yourself, you begin the process of humbling yourself and the journey of self realization begins.
As stated in an earlier post, you don't need to prove your motives. You don't need to explain yourself to anyone.
People are a reflection of their thoughts and beliefs.
But if you stay silent, you are providing no fuel, and you are instead, recognizing and observing what others believe and claim, and their reasoning may become more apparent to you.
And this action on your end might make others uncomfortable.
Silence is uncomfortable because many of us are used to the back and forth transaction of daily conversation.
But silence is necessary. It's what allows us to reflect and to conclude.
"Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen." -Plutarch