Quotes About Conflict

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.