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Quotes About Conflict

Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.
~ Scott Adams
Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.
~ David Oderberg
If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.
~ David Titley
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
~ George McGovern
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
~ Sophocles
The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.
~ Ian Barbour
Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.
~ Kirk Douglas
Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.
~ Miljenko Jergovic
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
~ Toni Morrison
Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
~ Joe Hill, Horns
Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.
~ Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.
~ Jay Baruchel
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
~ Philip Zimbardo
It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
~ John Lydon
My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.
~ Eric Massa
This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?
~ Howard Dean
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.
~ Mao Zedong
How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
There is no good war.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.
~ Brad Pitt