Quotes About Conflict

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

You wonder, how could socialists, true socialists work with Islamists? Because if those Islamists take over, the first thing they're going to do is kill the socialists.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.

Cease fire is the main and the most important precondition for launching an implementation of the Minsk agreement.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

I can fight, but that's the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I'm not very good.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.