Quotes About Conflict

See, a villain takes the story forward. If everything centers around nice people, then there will be no twists and turns.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

Villains are fun to play.

And still, villains are also superheroes; they just fight for the other side, but theyre still superheroes.

Villains are as important as the hero. Without the right villain, the hero isn't heroic enough.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.

I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people; they fight villains.

We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct motivations.

A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.

I love villains.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.

War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.