Quotes About Conflict

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.

This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Beating people up is a positive thing.

...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.

A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force.

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.