Quotes About Conflict

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.