Quotes About Conflict

The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.

Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.

I have been to Kargil, and I have seen the tragedy that both the Indians and the Pakistanis faced.

Nobody knows the tragedy of a small island divided against itself better than a Cypriot.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering and bloodshed that follows and the collapse of economic and social development leads to tragic consequences.

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.

I trained my whole career to fight. I loved my job - I prioritised by job over my family, over my children.

I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on.

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

RSS is an organization that is trained in spreading lies and creating communal clashes.

Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.

In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

I think Syria is now the training ground for the world... These rebel forces are more of a threat than anything.

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen.