Quotes About Conflict

Therefore fighters are not of Christ's kingdom, and are without Christ's kingdom, for his kingdom stands for peace and righteousness.

Here is the irony: Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars, and as a result there was never a European empire—there was instead a British empire, a Spanish empire, a French empire, a Portuguese empire, and so on.

America is a country in which the storm is essential to clear the way for the calm. Because Americans, obsessed with the present and future, have difficulty remembering the past, they will all believe that there has never been a time as uncivil and tense as this one.

We should remember what Bismarck said in 1888: "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans." Balkan

And from this story I learned about the geopolitics of taking out one's salami.

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

The founders made the president commander in chief for a reason: they had read Machiavelli carefully and they knew that, as he wrote, "there is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

since the EU was created, there have been more wars in Europe than between 1945 and 1992. Many

Pero su meta no era ganar. Ni siquiera estaba claro qué significaba ganar. Su meta era sólo perturbar al mundo musulmán y ponerlo en contra de sí mismo, para que no emergiera un imperio islámico.

It is good, as I have said, to be neither victim nor victimizer. Unfortunately, it is not possible. What

The United States doesn't need to win wars. It needs to simply disrupt things so the other side can't build up sufficient strength to challenge it.

In 711 Muslim armies went north into Spain, ultimately occupying it and crossing the Pyrenees into France. In 732 Charles Martel, in a defining battle, defeated the Muslim armies, forcing them back behind the mountains and confining them to the Iberian Peninsula. Had Martel lost that battle, Europe would have been a very different place.

The United States periodically reaches a point of crisis in which it appears to be at war with itself, yet after an extended period it reinvents itself, in a form both faithful to its founding and radically different from what it had been.

Terrorism is an act of violence whose primary purpose is to create fear and, through that, a political result.

Empires always spawn demons,

They're like beasts of the jungle," a woman said to Edge. "But it was their jungle first," he answered

one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

If the Arabs put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I'll drown him in that damn fountain and then I'll CPR him back and drown him again.

Just keep in mind," Leon said, merging onto the highway, "I'm your cousin and you love me. If you attack me while I'm driving, we will both die and then he wins. Don't let him win, Catalina.

Sit on him? What kind of battle strategy is that?

For example, if a starving man pulls a gun on you and you get the upper hand, you will likely let him go because you will feel sorry for him. That's the kind of person you are." "And what kind of person are you?" His face was hard. "The kind who shoots first.

Why me?" he said finally. "Are you on some sort of mission to fuck up my life?" "I try my best to avoid you." "You're doing a hell of a job." "I honestly don't mean to cause problems." "You don't cause problems. An unpiloted vampire causes problems. You cause catastrophes.