Quotes About Conflict

I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton." Nick didn't blink. "Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.

We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

War is a defeat for humanity.