Quotes About Conflict

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Violence can never bring about peace and understanding. Only by looking deeply in order to understand the true roots of violence can we achieve peace.

We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone's victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.

It is my prayer that nations will no longer send their young people to fight each other, not even in the name of peace. I do not accept the concept of war for peace, nor of a 'just war,' in the same way that I cannot accept the concepts of 'just slavery,,' 'just hatred, or 'just racism.

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To "love our enemy" is impossible, because the moment we love him, he is no longer our enemy.

If one person keeps calm and smiles at a provocation, the whole world will have a better chance for peace.

When there are wars within us, it will not be long before we are at war with others, even those we love.

Sometimes things occur beneath the surface that will eventually explode, and by then it is too late to deal with them, so the only recourse is to divorce or fight or even kill each other. To meditate is to be aware of what is going on in yourself, your feelings, your body, your perceptions, your family. The second technique is to recall, and the more details which the community has, the easier it is to help.

The Third World War will not be unleashed by the great powers; it will break out first in the zones of famine and oppression.

This is the nature of war: it turns us into enemies. People who have never met kill each other out of fear. War creates so much suffering—children become orphans, entire cities and villages are destroyed. All who suffer in such conflicts are victims.

I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.

It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience - childbirth - into a horrific or even fatal one.

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

I was the one that, when we were younger, I would pop off first. If somebody got into it with me and my brother, I'm jumping off first.

Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

I got into a fight with a kid in junior high, and then we became friends after that.