Quotes About Conflict

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

I'd love to be Spider-Man, but one, it doesn't fit into the 'Glee' schedule.

I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don't have to do it physically.

My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.

Our beautiful homeland is enough for us, Arabs and Jews. If we turn her into a battlefield, she will spit us out.

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

Personally, I think I've got split personalities, and I may need a psychiatrist. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously. I'm serious about this.

When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It's like a split personality.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.