Quotes About Conflict

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

It's true that you often have arguments with players as you do in everyday life and that's nothing new.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family.

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

In war time, nowhere is safe.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?

America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

The world cannot afford a nuclear Iran.

Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

I agree that a nuclear Iran is extremely dangerous, and I believe that it must be prevented.