Quotes About Conflict

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich,' Peter Ustinov the playwright recently observed with succinct clarity. Although

I sniff a fire burning without outlet, consuming acrid its own smoke. It's me.

Why a sooty-faced negro from a distant land should be an element of disturbance between white brothers was a puzzle to me.

These people had been at war for nearly two decades. It was only natural that they would be completely inured to its savageries by now

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

Force is not a remedy.

I am the great terror of the squires, they seem to be seized with a sort of bucolic mania in dealing with me.

They fight against popular creationism, but at the same time they fight fanatically for their own creationism," he

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

without a war, America would descend into total confusion and would have to turn itself into a police state to survive, because its people no longer have any internal structure. Americans can never be defeated by war. It is peace they find intolerable.

This girl - this thin, cold child in a hand-me-down cardigan and faded dress - hated me, not for anything I was or had done, but because I existed, in her world, and she didn't want me there.

Faced with a real fight, most animals will compromise. If the odds look bad, one or another will back off, or the fight will be discontinued by mutual consent. Humans are the only animals prepared to fight for a Pyrrhic victory.

War is fundamental. A man's views on war tell you the basic axioms of his view on life.

The cleverest writers give the someone we like not one but two things he wants VERY BADLY, and then puts them at odds with each other. I love Romeo but hate his Montague family. I love the Shire but want to travel like Uncle Bilbo and see elves and dragons. I love Lois Lane but I have to act like a mild mannered dweeb to hide my powerful secret lest my effectiveness as a crimefighter be compromised, so the girl I have a crush on has a crush on my alter ego and won't give me a date.

Do you have anything—a cross, a bible?" I asked him. "Course not! I'm a man of science." "And if the shadow that wields the Great Fear manifests here?" "I'll hide behind you and cry like a girl, as befits a man of science.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

Many rebel soldiers that night would sleep on their muskets and question the value of a victory that had cost them Stonewall Jackson.