Quotes About Conflict

Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm.

We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

You should have died when I killed you.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.

Everyone has enemy; you will learn all that so soon as you are little older, and without cause she is mine

I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are said to throw themselves over precipices through sheer dread of falling.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

Violence gains nothing, killing wins nothing -- only sometimes nothing is what people want. Death is what they want. And they get it.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

How they'd started out so much in love, and how things had slowly gone wrong, and how she'd tried, she'd tried, she'd tried. How whenever she resolved to leave Tommy, she'd succumb to sorrow and nostalgia, yes, but mostly she could just never resist her stupid, primal attraction to him, and one of those times they'd conceived Milo.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness -- incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.