Quotes About Conflict

War enables people to be what they really are…" Dieter Franck in Jackdaws

la guerra había hecho aflorar toda su fortaleza y su coraje

When there is fighting in the streets, they can claim that public order has broken down, and drastic measures are needed to restore the rule of law.

There's no doubt in my mind that McMurphy's won, but I'm not sure what.

They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate...

Hell of a life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Puts a man in one confounded bind, I'd say." McMurphy

Hell of a life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Puts a man in one confounded bind, I'd say.

I love them but I cannot give myself for them.

You damned moose.

She got to where she was tripping me and beating me to the floor.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.