Quotes About Conflict

I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

We have not yet begun to fight.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

As Upton Sinclair sardonically noted, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

La idea de crear una sociedad pacífica por medio de un conflicto armado parecía estar irremediablemente condenada al fracaso por su misma contradicción.

Murderous, mutual loathing between tribes was no more explicable, or complicated, then the genocidal urges of chimpanzees—a fact of nature that we humans, vainly and disingenuously, pretend our codes of civilization transcend.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.