Quotes About Conflict

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

I love the Altai Mountains. Crimea, despite all the conflict, is a remarkable place historically, culturally and physically. The mountains drop down into the sea. Porpoises swim in the shallows. Horses gallop through the grass. There are huge rocks, castles, caves.

Social groups in society don't swim about in some kind of harmonious melting pot. We rub against each other from very different and opposing positions, so why we should agree about language use and the means of describing it is beyond me.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.

I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.

Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

Give me a sword fight any day.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.