Quotes About Conflict

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Having achieved something so special as peace, it is criminal to throw it away on a whim.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Do you understand about water in the West? Whiskey's for drinking; water's for fightin' over.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

During my years in the Navy and in the White House, I was involved in assessing how a war with Iran would go. In summary: It would be ugly.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.