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Quotes About Conflict

All revolutions are violent revolutions.
~ Paul Watson
We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
~ Michael T. Flynn
What's important is that, when you're tested, you stand firm against the violent activities of those who would try to plunge our people back into the misery of the past.
~ Martin McGuinness
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.
~ Alveda King
I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.
~ Murray Head
Our country is pathologically violent.
~ Dee Rees
Following one of the most violent conflicts in human history, the United States and Japan built a deep and abiding friendship - an alliance that has underwritten unprecedented economic growth and security in the Asia Pacific for half a century. It is an alliance based on mutual interests and shared values and the ties between our people.
~ Ben Rhodes
Antifa are the left-wing version of Nazis. They are very violent; they are terrible people. They cause a ruckus and property damage.
~ Mike Cernovich
The Right isn't violent; the Left is. By allowing these sociopaths to shut down free speech with violence, you are all but demanding a war.
~ Gavin McInnes
I think children are really violent with each other often.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan. And very violent films were a way for me to rebel. You have to rebel against your parents.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that's a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear proliferation, our policymakers have their hands full.
~ Joe Sestak
As grown women, we have kids and we should be able to sit down and discuss issues without getting violent and having to cross someone's territory.
~ Erica Mena
Bonanza' was never a violent show, yet it is set in an era when men wore guns and violence was a fact of life.
~ Lorne Greene
Psychologically, it's difficult to ever shrug off the effects of extreme hardship or poverty, family bereavement, chronic ill health or the memory of violent conflict.
~ Dawn Foster
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
~ Margaret Sanger
When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
~ Alan Furst
You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
~ Joe Haldeman
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
~ Robert Gottlieb
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
~ Greg Gutfeld
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
~ Daniel Barenboim
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
~ James Longstreet