Quotes About Conflict

In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

You form pretty strong opinions about the guys you compete against. You're all very competitive; you're all very selfish. So it's easy to drum up some strong opinions in a second's notice, like, 'Argh! This guy!'

And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!" Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898

I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words

A pesar de todo, cada hombre mata lo que ama, Para cada uno, oigan esto, Algunos lo hacen con una mirada amarga, Algunos con una palabra adulatoria, El cobarde lo hace con un beso, ¡El hombre valiente con una espada!

To be good is to be in harmony with ones self. Discord is to be forces to be in harmony with others.

She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

In war,' answered the weaver, 'the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. 

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Between you and him there are chasms. He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. 

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

How you men stand up for each other! How you women war against each other!

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

L'inferno e il paradiso sono tutti e due dentro di noi.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

What most people don't understand about lawyers is that they're all scared shitless to actually fight with one another.

We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages in Vietnam

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse.

I can live neither with you, nor without you.