Quotes About Conflict

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

History has been the history of warfare.

History is where tensions were.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

We had one moment in history where we were disseminating what we now call the Islamic State. That's when we finally cut the deal with the insurgents.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'