Quotes About Conflict

ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.

In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.

I don't want to say which guard it was with the Bulls, but I would take the ball and he would come to me and say, 'You are taking my bread.' I didn't know the slang.

I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms.

I went away, I was gone for 2 1/2 months, and they said, 'oh, Dr. Dre is engaged.' I had already had it out with this girl before I left. He was sleeping with her so I was like, 'Come on!'

Eritrea is hellbent on destabilising Ethiopia. It does not care who it sleeps with.

There were two hoods, Magnolia and Castalia; I went to Magnolia Elementary. Back then there was slick beefing - all the Castalia kids would go over to Magnolia.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

I've been blocking people and unfriending people for a long time, and it doesn't take much if I feel like you've slighted me at all.

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

There's definitely something about the impact of social media in terms of people being able to go from slightly angry with each other to 'fight' very quickly.

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.