Quotes About Conflict

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

I was born in 1953, a child of the Cold War era, raised amid the constant fear of a conflict with the potential to destroy humanity. Whatever other dangers may exist, no such fear exists today. Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. That is a prize beyond value.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.

Whole villages of Muslims had been hacked to pieces by drunken Christian youth, and as foreigners, we should have been pulled out by the organization. But the U.S. government supported the Christian tribes, just as the French had all through the colonial days, and to pull us out would have meant admitting that things weren't as stable for their puppet government as the western companies, trading in Ivory Coast for cocoa, rubber, and timber, and selling Coke and cigarettes, wanted to hear.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting

Or, at least, he wasn't sure she was willing to marry Jim Chee as he currently existed—a just-plain cop and a genuine sheep-camp Navajo as opposed to the more romantic and politically correct Indigenous Person.

Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.

I've been here in Richmond for six years and I still don't get it. To me, having the principal Richmond monuments dedicated to the Lost Cause is like saying we're dedicated to no hope, no future. It's like having a monument to unrequited love.

Andersonville lay on American soil and saw the death of 13,000 Americans in American custody.

The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to feel all warm inside about that?

MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.

JOE: You said my wife. And I want to know, is she— PRIOR: TALK TO HER YOURSELF, BULLWINKLE! WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR?

There's no discipline or strategy, nothing depersonalized: its mayhem and each side intensely hates the other.

Bilbo takes a mallet to a crab, smashing it!

Lee should leave, having just surrendered to Grant inside; but he's immobile. Some of the officers of both sides look at Lee, some can't bear it. Lee tries out various expressions: pride, defiance, blankness.

all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;

The paradox is that when you can get into right versus wrong bickering in personal relationships -- even if you believe you have won -- you have lost.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Offering advice to an angry person is like congratulating a sleeping insomniac with a slap on the back.

Locura? - Conflicto entre el yo real y el anhelado