Quotes About Conflict

The concept of "purity of arms" was forged by the Haganah, meaning that combatants' weapons shouldn't be soiled by hurting civilians, women, children or unarmed enemy soldiers.

For decades, large sections of the Zionist movement ignored the fact that there were Arabs living in Palestine.

As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.

That's what is happening every time we kill an Iraqi, every time we kill anyone, we are creating a large number of people who are going to want vengeance. And, you know, when are we ever going to learn that that doesn't work?

Under Saddam Hussein, no al Qaeda. Under George Bush, al Qaeda. Under Saddam Hussein, relative stability. Under George Bush, instability. Under Saddam Hussein, about 30,000 deaths a year. Under George Bush, about 60,000 deaths a year. I don't get it. Why is it better to have George Bush the king of Iraq rather than Saddam Hussein?

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

For Jabotinsky, the confrontation between Jews and Arabs was rooted in the fact that both sides shared historical rights to the same land. This was not a struggle between right and wrong, but between right and right.

Sabrina suggested they burn their orange monkey sweaters and blue heart covered pants but Daphne refused. Granny took Sabrina aside and apologised for the outfit, saying that Mr. Canis might not have been the right choice to shop for girls. After all, he was colour-blind.

You want me to be your boyfriend, don't you?" Puck taunted. His wings suddenly popped out of his back and he swooped over to Sabrina. Before she knew how to react, the boy kissed her on the lips. A million thoughts ran through Sabrina's head at once. Puck was annoying. He had dumped her in vats of disgusting glop. He'd put creepy crawlers in her bed. But the most awful thought of them all was the one about the kiss—it was nice.

Sabrina?" "Daphne! Are you okay?" "Yes. Sabrina?" "What?" "I hate you!" the little girl screamed.

looked as if he might hit Jack, but the giant killer just

Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.

fought, it was usually more trouble than it was

And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed headlong toward an inevitable, and violent, climax.

It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.

system will get better as long as people aren't introducing duplication behind your back. If they are, you can take steps with them short of physical violence

But nothing could stand before our lads, they routed them from the Meadow, & all afterwards was a mere Chace, so far I saw."1 — James Parker, September 11, 1777

The role of democracy is not to banish disagreement but rather to prevent political disagreements from devolving into armed conflict.

in Baltimore Harbor. While the U-boat haunted Americans

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.

The play's plot is highly self-reflective, centering on a conflict between two teenage actors involved in the production of an original play, itself titled Teen Play. Said Diggins, "It's an unusual conceit, one truly meant to challenge its audience. What I intend to deliver," he added in a tone well known to longtime radio listeners, "is an utterly mah-velous evening of theater.

His revulsion was overcome by love welling up within his heart.

Sex is class warfare. You must understand your weapon if you wish to emerge the victor from the struggle.