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Quotes About Conflict

The Janjaweed is a truly unfettered bully. No one has stood up to them. If they were met by a mobile quick reaction force of African Union soldiers, the Janjaweed would quickly learn their habits were not sustainable.
~ Erik Prince
That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.
~ Hirohito
Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
~ Hideki Tojo
Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.
~ Judge Mills Lane
It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
~ John McCarthy
While we were there, we saw first-hand the senseless violence and destruction from terrorist groups that have repeatedly called for the end of Israel. These kinds of attacks are an unfortunate part of everyday life for the Israeli people.
~ Scott Garrett
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
~ John O. Brennan
No one knows how Donald came to be who he is better than his own family. Unfortunately, almost all of them remain silent out of loyalty or fear. I'm not hindered by either of those.
~ Mary L. Trump
Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.
~ Katori Hall
Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.
~ Chris Van Hollen
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
~ Neil Jackson
GFY' is about the thin line between love and hate. It's about statements that are said out of anger that unfortunately cannot be taken back.
~ Dennis Lloyd
In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
~ Noel Gallagher
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.
~ Phillip Adams
I want faith; but I am faithless
~ Errol Flynn
Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
~ Edward Bernds
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
~ Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
There is madness in the heart of a man.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Even in peace there is war.
~ A.H. Septimius
Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.
~ Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?
~ Compton Gage