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Quotes About Conflict

Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.
~ Osama bin Laden
Every time that zealots clash with the zany and Religion and Freedom take opposite positions across the trenches, the issue becomes larger than the individual.
~ Barkha Dutt
Perhaps inevitably, media stories focus on differences, which exacerbates tensions; yet Islamic radicalization is, in part, an acute expression of broader trends that affect us all.
~ Munira Mirza
I feel confused about what I'm supposed to be doing as a feminist because I do like fashion, and I do like magazines, too. I buy them on airplanes. I like seeing what hot trends are new this fall. It makes me feel very conflicted a lot of the time.
~ Megan Amram
From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case - one disputed trial - plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.
~ Anne Applebaum
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
~ Warren E. Burger
I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.
~ Catherine Hardwicke
The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
~ Bruno Dumont
My mother found herself in a triangular situation of my father and his legitimate wife. I experienced the emotional trauma of that triangle in my cradle.
~ Mahesh Bhatt
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
~ Jim Goad
I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
~ Rachel Weisz
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
~ Edward de Bono
Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.
~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego
He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
~ George Crook
I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
~ John Keegan
I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.
~ John F. Kelly
Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
~ Vladimir Putin
Some people would rather be right than free.
~ Vivian Amis
It is not to compare Ali and Allah. It is to discuss between tyrant Yazeed and veracity of Hussainiat.
~ Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
Cesto smo zaglavljeni izmedju onoga sto jesmo i onoga sto zelimo da budemo.
~ Tamara Stamenkovic