Quotes About Conflict

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

This is an era of violent peace.

If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

The world is too violent right now.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.

Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.