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Quotes About Conflict

Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"
~ David Mamet
We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.
~ J. F. Lawton
If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.
~ Hiro Mashima
People who want to kill other people are the last people I want to party with, because I get mouthy when I drink.
~ Doug Stanhope
My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.
~ Whitney Cummings
Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.
~ Eric Greitens
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
~ Gerry Adams
That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.
~ Lenny Bruce
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
~ Jack White
Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
~ Debbie Ford
You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
~ Steve Harvey
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
~ Huey Newton
The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
~ P. W. Botha
Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!
~ Jane Elliott
Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
~ Yelawolf
Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
~ Bashar al-Assad
I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
~ Mahmoud Abbas
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.
~ Shinzo Abe
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.
~ David Horowitz
No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
~ William S. Burroughs
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.
~ Tom Colicchio