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Quotes About Conflict

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
~ Jim Norton
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
~ Shulamith Firestone
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
~ Henry A. Wallace
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
~ John F. Kennedy
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.
~ Erich Hartmann
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.
~ Carl Jung
The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn't we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
~ Alexandra Bracken
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
~ Lars von Trier
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
~ C. S. Lewis
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
~ David Ben-Gurion
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
~ Che Guevara
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.
~ Jacqueline Cochran
I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state
~ Naftali Bennett
What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?
~ Terrence Malick
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
~ Lance Morrow
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
~ Philip K. Dick
As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?
~ John Tanton
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
~ Hannah Arendt
At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
~ Stephen Ambrose
You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?
~ Will Ferguson