Quotes About Conflict

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.

Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.

Choose your battles wisely.Unless you have a very highchance of victory, spare yourenergy and walk away

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

What is wedlock forced but a hell, an age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss and is a pattern of celestial peace.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Some refer to it as a cultural Chernobyl. I think of it as a cultural Stalingrad.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

My Dad used to say 'always fight fire with fire', which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.