Quotes About Conflict

In a fight to the death, I would in no doubt throw the fight.signed.....A pacifist

Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'.

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

You may have a guardian angel, but I have a uzzi.You work out who's gunna come out on top!

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Politics is a blood sport.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.