Quotes About Conflict

You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal -- they have to live off each other--while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way

One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,

The Caine Mutiny,

the only thing necessary to trigger tribal behaviour in humans is the creation of two completely arbitrary groups. Leave them alone in a room and watch it all begin:

In everyone's life there are important moments where you're going to have to fight for something. Just make sure you haven't used your capital over something that wasn't worth fighting over to begin with - Nina Totenberg

He had decided, almost hysterically it seems from the tone of this desperate letter to Washington, to turn his back on the people who had so rejected and wounded him, and make his peace with the British.

One of the books scheduled for adoption, she pointed out, informed children that the United States had settled its conflict in Korea by "using the bomb." This apparent reference to nonexistent nuclear warfare was just one of 231 factual errors cited by conservative critics whose

Fifty-four forty, or fight!

Those two were never friends. But Grace Goodhue was right about Calvin Coolidge, her mother was wrong. It was love at first sight. She, however, probably saw him first. Not only was her social experience wider than his, her emotional intelligence was keener. So when her lover and her mother clashed, she followed her lover.

Competing egos, status struggles, clashes of styles and personalities—this is the stuff conflict thrives upon.

The vision of Christ that thou dost seeIs my vision's greatest enemy.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

In 2009, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second-in-command, declared: 'He [Obama] is trying to say: "Do not hate us … but we will continue to kill you".

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.