Quotes About Conflict

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?