Quotes About Conflict

Defeat the Taliban. Secure the population.

Big Pharma's the Taliban... They're Al Qaeda.

By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.

The Taliban are terrible shots. At the end of some long patrols, we'd be walking through the fields and get shot at - and we'd just keep walking.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it.

We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.

With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Conor McGregor started well with his marketing, he talks a lot and is a great fighter, we can't deny that, but I think he crossed the line.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.

Our short film 'Kahaa Toh Tha' talks about how people can get irritated and frustrated with each other which leads to quarrels or fights.

Women who are living near the borders are never included in peace talks. It's the woman, who sits in her air conditioned room and never leaves Lahore or Delhi, who participates in such talks.