Quotes About Conflict

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

War is based on deception.

The ideal is the enemy of the real.

Make Sperm Wars, Not Real Wars!

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.

Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

In my real life, I'm a Black Lives Matter social justice activist, and so it was incredibly interesting to me to play somebody coming from the totally opposite side, whose beliefs are as deeply entrenched - as deeply felt, and given as much gravity, as I give my beliefs.

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

Donald Trump is an extremist leader who came out of nowhere. He's self-financed, recruits through social media, attracts his followers with a radical ideology to take over the world, and is actively trying to promote a war between Islam and the West.

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'

The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.'

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.