Quotes About Conflict

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

Sadly, most labor attorneys will advise you not to say you're wrong to anyone, because that might lead them to have something they can use to sue you.

We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing.

We suffered a lot by mixing religion with the politics.

Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.

Nobody in the Indian subcontinent has suffered or struggled more than Kashmiris.

There are two distinctly, almost surreally different narratives in Israel and Palestine... and to a great extent, both are right and both are wrong. Both peoples have suffered greatly and both have legitimate grievances against the other.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.