Quotes About Conflict

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

As you get older, I have seen it a lot... fighting among siblings. The reason is usually money or spouses. But my kids don't fall into that trap.

Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body.

I'm a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body.

Joe Stubbs was very jealous of me, especially after 'I Found a Love.' We'd be on stage and he'd lay traps for me, make me look bad.

Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.

I don't like the trash talking too much. When my opponents say something, for sure I respond, I say something, too. I don't start the trash talk.

Talking makes the fight bigger... When the fight is over, everyone goes in opposite sides with money in the pocket. You have to talk trash because that brings money.

I know if someone talked trash to me, I'd want to kick his butt.

Trash talk can get confused with fight talk.

I talk trash, but the thing is, I talk trash about people I'm actually going to fight, who are actually in my weight class.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.

Because of war millions of children are growing up with high levels of stress and trauma, missing out on school and becoming withdrawn from their friends and families.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn't leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.

I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.