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Quotes About Conflict

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
~ William Graham Sumner
You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America.
~ Ryan Zinke
When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two decades organized boycotts of my show.
~ Charlie Sykes
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.
~ Robert Sapolsky
War is not beautiful. Sometimes you see action sequences where battles seem organized. I know that from how the Vikings fought. It's not beautiful. It's hard. It's hard work.
~ Kristofer Hivju
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?
~ Hassan Nasrallah
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
~ Elihu Root
Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.
~ Paul Newman
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
~ Yasser Arafat
Let my enemies devour each other.
~ Salvador Dali
We're going to fight hard on this. We're going to push hard - not just on North Korea; we're going to push hard on other countries who are not abiding by the resolutions and not abiding by the sanctions against North Korea.
~ Nikki Haley
In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power and wealth and standing, was able to enslave others. Don't torget, mankind has had wars where we sent armies to enslave other countries; history is full of slavery.
~ Lorne Greene
It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
~ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
~ Jeannette Rankin
We all have challenging family relationships, and trying to balance that between our dreams and what we feel compelled to do is, I think, a challenge that's easily relatable.
~ Keiko Agena
Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.
~ Joe Sacco
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.
~ Homer Hickam
I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.
~ Leslie Mann
From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
~ Larry Craig
Not everybody in the world who is an opponent of our opponent is necessarily going to be a friend of ours.
~ Ron Estes