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Quotes About Conflict

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.
~ Samora Machel
Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.
~ Varun Grover
How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?
~ Bernice King
The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
~ Salva Kiir Mayardit
I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
~ Pete Stark
Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
~ Joe Frazier
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.
~ Petro Poroshenko
Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.
~ Adnan Pachachi
To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.
~ Martti Ahtisaari
I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.
~ Charlize Theron
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
~ Barry Goldwater
Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.
~ Roy Moore
Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.
~ Joy Browne
Women; can't live with em, can't kill em
~ Tom Arnold
And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
~ Christiane Amanpour
It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
~ Dave Matthews
Love between a man and woman is war.
~ August Strindberg
To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.
~ Arthur Desmond
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
~ E. O. Wilson