Quotes About Conflict

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

The midwife of history is violence.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.