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Quotes About Conflict

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.
~ Kofi Annan
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.
~ Martin McGuinness
Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.
~ Ehud Olmert
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
~ Howard Zinn
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.
~ Barack Obama
The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.
~ Joshua Landis
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
~ Tony Campolo
The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the attacks.
~ Karan Mahajan
Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.
~ Reince Priebus
War is like government, a matter of tact.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
On one side the government, the other side the mob.
~ Neil Young
The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.
~ Yanar Mohammed
Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
~ Oliver Stone
The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
People don't start wars, governments do.
~ Ronald Reagan
No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.
~ Roseanne Barr
At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."
~ Sam Levenson
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.
~ H. L. Mencken
I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
~ Zubin Mehta
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
~ Jodie Foster
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
~ Muhammad Ali