Quotes About Conflict

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

Our common goal is to keep Hong Kong from chaos, severe polarisation, and violence.

Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.

I feel like I have chemistry with every girl but I don't know what happened with Awesome Kong. I never even saw her work before our very first match. I just heard so much about her and then we brought in this whole women's division.

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

I thought North Koreans were the only people who hated Americans, but turns out there are a lot of people hating this country in this country.

Serbs can only leave Kosovo.

There is no Kurdish problem.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was used in the Iranian-Iraq War.

I remember during the Gulf War, my father's ship had just finished a deployment in in the Gulf and was on its way back when the war started in Kuwait. They turned around and went back to the Gulf.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

It's tricky business trying to place blame. For when we judge someone else's behavior, we quickly come into conflict with our own.

Being willing to walk away from a power struggle (or worse) is one of the most peaceful actions we can ever take. Doing it without the help of God is difficult for most of us, but seeing it as an opportunity to get closer to God makes it more appealing and far easier.

I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn't smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there were two of me, one who heartily approved of the mage and one who would have dearly loved to see him dead.

You know, I've lived a long time," he told me, massaging my calf more firmly now. "And I met a lot of people. But I ain't never met a woman made me want to beat her to death as often as you.

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.