Quotes About Conflict

The war in Ukraine makes Americans and Westerners look almost like angels when it comes to invading other nations.

There can't be peace without freedom and if you claim otherwise, then I can ensure you that your peace will be short lived.

There is always a civil war between heart and mind within every individual. So this is the biggest battle of all time.

There is no real love in politics since you have to marry the daughter of your closest enemy to keep the peace for a while.

There will always be disagreements among mankind, as long as we have different religions, political parties, sports and time zones. That is the beauty of living.

To claim that the world has known only two world wars is to ignore the history of past generations and civilizations.

To sin is to declare war on the universe and to bring disorder to the world.

War between religions and science will never end; because they speak difference languages. There is a lack of communication between them.

Wars make a man more masculine. Hence, it is the oldest game of men that has been played in every generation.

We do not wish to judge anyone nor wish to be judged in return. Meaning, we must dwell on the neutral side, in order to fully understand ourselves and those who are constantly causing us trouble in our daily lives.

We only need a mediator when we lack knowledge of the matter in question.

What difference does it make whether it was Isaac or Ishmael who came first? We can leave that to the Arabs and Jews to fight over their inheritance.

You can only quarrel with someone whom you share almost everything in common or a similar person.

You can try to mix capitalism and socialism together, but you cannot be both at the same time! In the end, one system will always take over the other. Resulting in a true/false friendship.

Picture or no picture, people will keep killing each other using methods old and new—day after day, year after year, centuries of killing—until one way or another we're all dead, and all the guns and cameras of the world are just so much garbage lying in the dirt.

Poet Walt Whitman, a Civil War hospital volunteer who later interviewed pardon-seeking Confederates, remarked that "in any other country on the globe, the whole batch of Confederate leaders would have had their heads cut off.

When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.

The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.

The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel