Quotes About Conflict

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

As a child, I felt that the Indian part of me was unacknowledged, and therefore somehow negated, by my American environment and vice versa. Growing up, I was impatient with my parents for being so different, holding on to India the way they did, and always making me feel like I had to make a choice of which way I would go.

Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

There is an anatomical dysfunction in today's Lebanon, and we have been stuck in a socio-political vicious circle for decades.

The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

I'm still an Irish republican; I absolutely believe in Irish unity and am working to achieve that. But over the course of 15 years or more, people like myself and others have been working to end the vicious cycle of conflict.

By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

People will throw stones and hide their hands and then get back and play victim.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.