Quotes About Conflict

Afghanistan has safe zones... so it's possible to send grown-ups back to that country. We can't empty Afghanistan.

I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain. Throughout my childhood, I was constantly trying to protect her from my father.

In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.

Hostile states' use of proxies in war zones to inflict damage on U.S. interests and troops is a constant, longstanding concern.

In a war zone you know exactly where the threats are coming from. I plan my way in and we plan our way out and you're there for a limited period of time.

Soon after I graduated from Columbia University grad school, the war in Iraq started. I was a young freelance journalist with no experience in conflict zones but I wanted to be close to it, so I moved to Syria.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by Quakers.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge, we must settle things by the sword.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.