Quotes About Conflict

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

I'm in constant battle with MTV to see where the line falls. You know, the things I do and say and the things they profit on and the things I profit on.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

For years we've had leaders who promised to end America's costly wars, only to cave in to the establishment view.

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

Denying that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel does nothing to promote peace - instead, it disrespects a longtime, helpful and humane ally in the Middle East.

I had two managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn't get any fights, and I was fighting once a year. I knocked out Norton and then didn't fight for 13 months. Then I fight the heavyweight champion of the world.

I worked for promoters that I couldn't stand and they couldn't stand me. But they knew if they put my name out there, I would sell out for them.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.