Quotes About Conflict

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

I have no first-strike capability. I never choose to go into battle first. But I won't back down.

Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

I'm not really in Louis CK's circle. It'd probably be harder if we were really close and I went off on him.

It's not that I don't enjoy fighting. I don't enjoy the circumstances around fighting.

We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

War is not civilized.

I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.