Quotes About Conflict

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.