Quotes About Conflict

For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.

People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

I just can't be with someone who's afraid to voice their opinions, or who can't butt heads once in a while. I'm a straight shooter, and I think a bit of that spark is healthy in any kind of relationship.

If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.

Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

I'm calling out the enemy. He is Speaker Paul Ryan.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.

When you get into a fight with your partner or a friend, you usually have some weird, specific thing that you hold on to that you fight about that has nothing to do with what's going on.

The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them - an admittedly minor slice - are shaded with the elements of high art.

So many people discuss, you know, Israel/Palestine as if it's people on a spectrum.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.

The pace of change and the speed of war has greatly accelerated.

Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.