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Quotes About Conflict

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
~ Antonio Guterres
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
~ Ahad Ha'am
Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.
~ Paul Kagame
A great country cannot wage a little war.
~ Duke of Wellington
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
~ Honore de Balzac
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
~ John Adams
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
~ Heinrich Heine
A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.
~ Brian P. Cleary
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
~ Edith Hamilton
Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
~ Mary Douglas
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
~ Ralph Adams Cram
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.
~ Lisa Gardner
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
~ Cary Fukunaga
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.
~ James Tiptree Jr.
The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.
~ Neil Young
Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Average people push great people out of a company.
~ Jason Calacanis
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
~ Jesse Jackson
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
~ John Steinbeck
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
~ Woodrow Wilson
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
~ Laura Wasser
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
~ Bill Bailey