Quotes About Conflict

I would feel [my son's] wants at such a moment fraudulent, as an attempt moreover to defraud me of living even for fifteen minutes as myself. My anger would rise

There is nothing that I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American. And the way that we can have recourse against that is if we all passionately demand that we have election security in all 50 states.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Because I love making people mad. It is my favorite pastime.

People think I'm at war with Pat Rafter. It's not true.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

Samir is a well composed person. Dolly Bindra tried his patience big time.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Bear patiently with a rival.

In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being, am fighting against: oppression, religious rule, and patriarchy. They empower Israel while dividing the Palestinians.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.

For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.

I am Jim Gray, and I am the guy who is going to beat Rand Paul.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

I won't wait for this Joshua-Wilder-Tyson Fury nonsense and become a pawn in their negotiations.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.