Quotes About Conflict

Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

I strongly feel that there has to be a dialogue process internally as well as externally, with Pakistan.

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

I know I'm hated. Or rather, that people struggle with dislike for me.

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

I'm drawn to roles where someone has to struggle or fight.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.