Quotes About Conflict

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

It makes me very sad. Everyone's afraid of each other - Jews are afraid of Palestinians, Palestinians are afraid of Jews. Everywhere I see fear, not understanding. Reason went out of the window a long time ago.

For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me.

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

What you have in the Middle East is tension not between Jews and Arabs, not between Israelis and Palestinians, but between the radical wing and the moderate people.

I hate the idea that talking security is Likud and right wing, and talking about peace is left wing and Labor and Kadima. The whole idea is to find a way to bridge: to find a way to have security and peace together.

The things that frustrate one piece of Trump's coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition.

To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.

This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

We yelled, mostly, but bad enough that you wanted to fight. That's how we became winners. We fought each other. When you did something wrong, we'd tell you about it.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they'll continue to be perceived as winners.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.