Quotes About Conflict

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Women, men, and children have fundamental rights to humanitarian assistance and protection. Yet far too many states block aid and attack their own citizens, and too many others - including some of the world's wealthiest countries - turn their back on those fleeing conflict and violence.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other, the 'them,' to treat that group horribly is made much easier.

I think violence can never be justified.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?