Quotes About Conflict

I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.

Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.

I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who's going to win.

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.

Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.

Well, it's looks like I've a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

One thing that's a lot harder to put into stories than you'd think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters with a capital 'M' don't inherently lend themselves to a story about your character. Unless one of your characters is themselves the monster, simply having a monster leads to a chase or a hunt.

We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

After moving from Montreal (where French vs.English is the only conflict) to New York (where everyone is obsessed with race) it was impossible to ignore how intellectually lazy and knee-jerk people are when it comes to any mention of ethnicity.

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it's morally wrong or even if it's illegal, because they're so driven to stop Trump.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.