Quotes About Conflict

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

Political parties can be pretty internecine, and pretty savage.

I am not against Hezbollah as a political party, but it should not be the cause of the destruction of Lebanon.

The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about.

'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

Labour and land are always politically sensitive.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

If I were to become a politician and people from the opposition criticised me then I will not feel good. So, I stay away from these things.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.