Quotes About Conflict

Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

The macro of any negotiation is that the only time you can cut a deal is when both sides are hurting. If either side is - is well and feeling happy, you can't get a deal. Then they go for victory. You need - if they're willing to settle for things the other side can live with, it's because they're hurting a little bit.

Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria.

America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

A more stable, stabilized Mideast, that's a humanitarian victory.

I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory.

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.