Quotes About Conflict

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

If the Crusades were not politics, we should have to narrow the meaning of the word very considerably.

What real man of letters that ever ventured into the arid and somewhat vulgar domain of Party-politics has not felt the same feeling of revulsion, the same longing for the water-brooks?

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

When loyalty to a person supersedes loyalty to the mission, problems and drama are likely to arise down the road.

Low trust is the greatest cost in life and in organizations, including families. Low trust creates hidden agendas, politics, interpersonal conflict, interdepartmental rivalries, win-lose thinking, defensive and protective communication.

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle" (Prov. 18:19 NKJV).

Anger also prompts self-justifying thoughts that minimize or deny our contribution to the conflict and shift the blame to the other party. That's why we so often foolishly go to war instead of going to God with the problem.

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?