Quotes About Conflict

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.

It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.

Ten days that shook the world.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I think one of the great strengths of 'The Flash' is just how close everyone is on the show. They tend not to have these raging conflicts, like what we keep giving everybody on 'Arrow.' That show is more of a soap opera, and I don't say that derogatorily.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

We don't tend to break into song when we go to war.

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.