Quotes About Conflict

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

An armed society is a polite society.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.