Quotes About Conflict

Two women, one a writer, the other a publisher, had both come up against the same lawyer. At least one of them had been trashed by him and had threatened to kill him. And now the other one was providing an alibi for her.

them cradling automatic machine guns. Mrs. Stellenbosch

Two women, both divorced, both with a grudge against the smooth-talking solicitor who had humiliated them.

I sent a car to pick you up at school, Alex. I thought you might like a lift. I didn't expect a declaration of war.

interests result in direct and indirect opposition.

From: Marsella, A.J. (2011). The United States of America: "A Culture of War." International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 714–728

A cultural ecology of violence!

warships. It wasn't exactly what

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep the resistance going, but never enough help to actually dislodge Assad from power.

It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of which serve multiple states, if not the entire country.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation.

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

I'm not going to discuss things that are internal party matters and things that are not supposed to be in public domain.

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