Quotes About Conflict

Reason, tradition, speculative conviction, dead orthodoxy, are a girdle of spider-webs. They give way at the first onset. Truth alone, as abiding in the mind in the form of divine knowledge, can give strength or confidence even in the ordinary conflicts of the Christian life, much more in any really "evil day.

The 'last issue of history' will be a conflict between 'Atheism and its countless forms and Calvinism. The other systems will be crushed as the half-rotten ice between two great bergs.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

that the Rhineland should be occupied by an international force until the dispute with Hitler can be resolved, the

if the French army was defeated, it was impossible to imagine that the English would survive.

The essence of foreign policy, is deciding which son of a bitch to support -in 1941, Hitler or Stalin; in 1972, Brezhnev or Mao; in 1979, Somoza or Ortega. One has to choose. A blanket anti-son of a bitch policy, like a blanket anti-ethnic cleansing policy, is soothing, satisfying and empty. It is not a policy at all but righteous self-delusion.

Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

On the day the Arabs—and the Palestinians in particular—make a collective decision to accept the Jewish state, there will be peace, as Israel proved with its treaties with Egypt and Jordan.

America is the land mine between barbarism and civilization.

Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish, and its capacity, when malign, to make all around it wither.

Australia is the only country that has fought with the United States in every one of its major conflicts since 1914, the good and the bad, the winning and the losing.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

By 1870, most white men in that part of the country either belonged to the organization or sympathized with it.

As the first baseman posed these well-crafted queries, Collins went looking for a policeman to arrest Cobb for "striking him while he was wearing eyeglasses," then considered an especially heinous offense.

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.

I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

I feel torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

Injury was aggravated by insult, and insult was embittered by pleasantry.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. 'This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don't let it get complicated. Gray it ain't. It's black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now.