Quotes About Conflict

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Nowadays most people kick with the pricks.

in the antagonistic society, the relationship of the generations is also one of competition, behind which stands naked violence.

No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the megaton bomb. It ends in the total menace which organized mankind poses to organized men, in the epitome of discontinuity.

No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

Where two pieties—feminism and multiculturalism—come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

Multiculturalism rests on the supposition—or better, the dishonest pretense—that all cultures are equal and that no fundamental conflict can arise between the customs, mores, and philosophical outlooks of two different cultures.

To paraphrase Burke, all that is necessary for barbarism to triumph is for civilised men to do nothing: but in fact for the past few decades, civilised men have done worse than nothing—they have actively thrown in their lot with the barbarians.

One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is. If henceforth I were miserable, it would be my own fault: and I vowed never to waste my substance on petty domestic conflict.

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man.

Do not hit, at all, if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.