Quotes About Conflict

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Fear usually looks like anger.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Fear is the brother of hate.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear.