Quotes About Conflict

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.

ISIS and radical Islam have declared war on us not because of anything we have done - not because we are a friend to Israel and not because we have not yet toppled the bloody Syrian dictator Assad. ISIS and radical Islamists hate us for who we are. The irony is, we ourselves do not know who we are.

I have a lot of enemies: extremists and the Syrian regime.

The fall of the Syrian regime is in the interest of America and Israel.

The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

I've been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.

Roughly nine of every 10 Syrian war dead since 2011 are on the butcher's bill accumulated by Assad and his friends in Iran's Quds Force, the Iran-allied Hezbollah, and the Russian air force.

The central problem in Syria is that Sunni Arabs will not be willing partners against the Islamic State unless we commit to protect them and the broader Syrian population against all enemies, not just ISIS.

We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training.

If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.

A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.

If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.

Doing something to make ourselves feel better is beside the real point of defeating Isis and ending the Syrian civil war.

Ultimately, stability in Syria will come from decisions made on the ground by the Syrian people and by their immediate neighbors.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

It was at that moment, standing next to her, that I figured out the truth. The truth was that Mom saw it too: the peeling paint, the cigarette butts on the stairs, everything. It soaked into me like water into sand, fast and heavy-making. But I still couldn't apologise for what I'd said. I wanted to, but I couldn't. I couldn't even smile at her.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.