Quotes About Conflict

I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?

When I say we're on different side of the streets, it's true. Me and Terence Crawford are on different side of the streets.

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

I used to be a wannabe Genghis Khan and will always be that. He never lost any battles. Then I swung to the other side of the spectrum and settled on Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Now I realise I should identify myself with those who strengthen my argument.

Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.

Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.

The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.

When you are working under stress you are bound to have different thoughts and opinion. But that doesn't mean one starts fighting.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.

In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Every piece of geopolitical strife that's happening in the world today is revolved around energy, either trying to grab resources or people using resources to fund radical groups.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.