Quotes About Conflict

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Being able to resolve conflicts peacefully is one of the greatest strengths we can give our children.

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like aggression and even violence.

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

The universe is bad; and men are fools, never really all on the same side in any war.

Perhaps if you were a Jewess it might be different. He'd suspect you of wanting to hook me. And he wouldn't like that at all. Of course, if you were immensely rich he might, he just might consider a marriage possible — but even so he'd hate to hurt my mother's feelings. You see, he's still very much in love with her.

Hoc tibi iuventus Romana indicimus bellum.

More than ever, the "free market" turns neighbors into rivals and neighborhoods into covert battlegrounds.

With terrorists, whether al-Fatah or Black September or the new, supposedly religious breed, the rage and the hatred come first.

Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire

America can take many things, but she cannot take massive casualties. Saddam can. They don't matter to him.

The United Nations had created a military "peacekeeping" force—the usual lunacy of sending a force to keep the peace where there was no peace to keep, then forbidding them to create the peace, ordering them instead to watch the slaughter without interfering.

The only way to remove permanently the risk of ultimate catastrophe is to abolish war altogether. War must cease to be an admissible social institution. We must learn to resolve our disputes by means other than military confrontation.

The act of giving a reason is the antithesis of authority. When the voice of authority fails, the voice of reason emerges. Or vice versa.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Altogether it is reckoned that around 1.9 million German women were raped by Soviet soldiers in the final months of the war and those immediately following the peace.12

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

It will be a war between an elephant and a tiger. If the tiger ever stands still the elephant will crush him with his mighty tusks. But the tiger does not stand still. He lurks in the jungle by day and emerges only at night. He will leap upon the back of the elephant, tearing huge chunks from his hide, and then he will leap back into the dark jungle. And slowly the elephant will bleed to death. That will be the war of Indochina."39

If we have to fight, we will fight. You will kill ten of us, and we will kill one of you, and in the end it is you who will be exhausted.

Trade is very old. In the state of nature, trade is something people do to their enemies. They don't trade with kin.

The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France.... And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliation.