Quotes About Conflict

When anybody could tell, nobody was ever going to give fucking peace a chance.

All happy families are alike in the pain their members helplessly inflict upon one another, as if under orders from a perverse higher authority.

People who have never sued anyone or been sued have missed a narcissistic pleasure that is not quite like any other.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.

Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

I strongly supported the war against Houthi rebels because I saw them as the antithesis of the Arab Spring that my government, unlike me, fiercely opposed.

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.