Quotes About Conflict

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself