Quotes About Conflict

I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

I tend to agree with those who say that a justice's duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.

Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.