Quotes About Conflict

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.

People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You'd go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

I think revenge is an extremely potent and powerful weapon, and hatred is more powerful sometimes than love.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

A state that calculates that using a weapon or tactic of war is in its interest will generally find a way to do so.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though.

The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.