Quotes About Conflict

Todo el mundo sabía que las balas no tienen ojos, que las bombas no son muy dadas a pedir disculpas y que los soldados son como tigres que han bajado de la montaña, tigres que no son precisamente vegetarianos.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of p0verty are fought to map change.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Morality is contraband in war.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Para él, quienes no lo apoyan, no son miembros de la oposición que confronta todo gobierno democrático, sino enemigos mortales que no tienen derecho a tener ningún rol político.

La degradación del poder ha cambiado las condiciones y las posibilidades del conflicto y ha aumentado la influencia de los actores pequeños, no estatales y no tradicionales,

He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.

AL QAEDA SPENT ABOUT $500,000 TO PRODUCE 9/11, WHEREAS THE direct losses of that day's destruction plus the costs of the American response to the attacks were $3.3 trillion. In other words, for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks, the United States spent $7 million.1 The costs of 9/11 equal one-fifth of the US national debt. In 2006, Hezbollah fired a precision-guided cruise missile at an Israeli ship

Although coming from different perspectives, analysts such as Kaplan and Amy Chua, author of World on Fire, have argued that the rapid pace of globalization and the weakening of states have made violent conflict more likely, and that attempts to create Western-style democracies where they do not currently exist are likely to backfire into violence.37

vivimos en un mundo asediado por nuevas formas de violencia de baja intensidad pero de gran impacto.

La política siempre ha sido el arte del compromiso, pero ahora parece haberse convertido en el arte de impedir que se logren acuerdos.

El poderío militar ya no equivale a seguridad nacional

Todo el mundo está bravo» La luna de miel ha terminado. Ya no hay venezolanos: hay chavistas o antichavistas, bolivarianos o escuálidos, vendepatrias o apátridas.

Lo que quiero decir no es que la coacción ya no sea posible —basta recordar las masacres en Siria—, sino que se ha vuelto más cara y más difícil de sostener a largo plazo.

According to a remarkable Harvard study, in the asymmetric wars that broke out between 1800 and 1849, the weaker side (in terms of soldiers and weapons) achieved its strategic goals in 12 percent of cases. But in the wars that erupted between 1950 and 1998, the weak side prevailed more often: 55 percent of the time.

Whenever global politics goes through major flux, the specters of conflict and anarchy raise their fearsome heads. Indeed, when the hierarchy of big powers changes, what is at stake is not just prestige but the stability and even survival of the international system itself.

Money has always been one motivation to take up arms

Nadie sobresale. La oposición sigue perdida.

Hugo se ocupa de encolerizar a sus seguidores y de demonizar a sus opositores, a quienes no trata como rivales políticos, sino como enemigos mortales que no tienen derecho a existir.