Quotes About Conflict

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.