Quotes About Conflict

Humour was often attached to cruelty, it seemed, and cruelty troubled Pino Fratelli.

In years gone by, when Israel's military pride was at its height, the standard jocular boast about Lebanon had been that, if ever it needed to conquer it, its army band would suffice. Now, upon returning from their service there, its soldiers threw themselves to the ground and kissed Israeli soil in gratitude for their survival, or, in the despised Lebanese and Palestinian manner, expressed their immense relief in celebratory salvos of automatic fire.87

America can win a war against any external foe. Consequently, it is the war at home that will ultimately decide America's fate

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Nature is always too strong for principle.

In all governments, there is a perpetual intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty; and neither of them can ever absolutely prevail in the contest.

The pope, aware that he had already angered Mussolini with his three telegrams, would do no more.

the National Socialists were divided into pro-church and anti-church factions that were "bitterly opposed to each other.

Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full of people to protect them from violence.

There is always money for war. You never hear political leaders say they can't go to war because the country can't afford it. They claim not to have money for the poor, homeless and hungry, but war? It's never a problem.

Conflict through the ages has not been between opposites, but versions of the same state of mind: the desire to control others.

It was about how empires try to save themselves in their declining years." "How timely," said Stone. "And how did the Ottomans try to save themselves, if I may ask?" "By keeping their subjects at each other's throats. The Ottomans were masters at sowing dissension. It was one of the few things they were good at, actually.

Baron von Weizsäcker assessed in his private diary, 'The Führer has no desire to pick a fight with the western powers but – so I'm assured – he cannot yet be sure if a war can be confined to Poland. So my own bet is unchanged, that we'll settle for a peaceful general approach.

I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

I tell yeh, Bright-eyes. Men and women? A bloody mess. Every time.

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.

It's not over when a man lays down his gun. The question remains as to which fellow will pick up the weapon next. That's politics.

This isn't combat. It's diplomacy." "Diplomacy with guns is combat.

A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.

He read political science, mass media communications, finance, and international conflict resolution,

something that is called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.

La relación entre Edward y yo fue una historia típica que, atrapada en la guerra, se volvió trágica...pero eso también es una historia típica