Quotes About Conflict

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Mind you, you have to have women around you in order to beat them—at the very least, they need to be within arm's reach.

It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.

Democrats won't let you go to work, but they'll let you riot.

I know. I shouldn't have punched Brian in the throat.

It is well documented that thousands of unreconstructed Nazis were brought to the United States and rolled into the military-industrial complex to aid in the Cold War against the old Soviet Union.

Hegelian dialectic, or problem, reaction, solution. This method basically involves fabricating or intensify a problem, offering a draconian solution, then settling for a "compromise" that nevertheless furthers the intended goal.

Millennia of warfare and millions of deaths have resulted from religious disputes over exactly who God is and which people meet God's approval.

are driving people in the Muslim world into the arms of these militant groups. We are the most hated nation on earth," wrote Hedges.

According to an CFR article published in 2017, members were not happy with the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. "The Trump administration seems determined to muddle through its foreign policy without initial guiding principles, benchmarks for progress, or the means of adjudicating between competing objectives, and with a wildly improvisational leadership style that has no precedent in recent history.

A profession that I was once proud to serve in has become a militarized police state. Officers are quicker to draw their guns and use their tanks than to communicate with people to defuse a situation. They love to use their toys, and when they do, people die. The days of the peace officer are long gone, replaced by the militarized police warrior wearing uniforms making them indistinguishable from military personnel.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

There's nothing worse than two people who have on the same position talking to each other about the position.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

I just go through life not doing anything to anyone, wreaking havoc left and right.

My mother thinks that what keeps me going is a well of spitefulness.' ... 'I think she's right. I can feel it right here.

Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.