Quotes About Conflict

With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

There is a scenario where AI may keep U.S. soldiers off the battlefield entirely, by using AI as a strategic advantage to prevent conflict or using it to find the critical piece of information within surveillance footage.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

Gaza itself is subject to constant aerial surveillance by drones and is rife with informers and collaborators with Israel.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Hezbollah will support Assad to the end because his continuing hold on power is critical to its own survival.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

All Israel wants to do is survive.

The Iranian regime is nothing if not resilient. It fought an eight-year-long war with Iraq to a draw despite losing hundreds of thousands of lives; it has survived decades of isolation.

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!