Quotes About Conflict

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Power factions fight back with lies.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.