Quotes About Conflict

Two evils, monstrous either one apart,Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart,And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

My grandmother's is the world that dropped the bomb—itself a slick object—so elegantly smooth it managed to slip past American consciousness, past enemy lines.

I do not recommend ignorance and I am not saying that there is no truth, but I am arguing that the best way to think about truth is to call it the best interpretation that anybody has come up with yet while conceding that no one knows what is coming next. There are lots of competing truths battling with one another for their place in the sun, and the truth is that we have to learn to cope with the conflict. The skies do not open up and drop The Truth into our laps.

On July 12, 1588, the Spanish Armada set sail for the Netherlands. The English were outnumbered and outgunned. However, fortune smiled on the English when they caught the Armada anchored in close formation near Calais. At midnight on July 28, the English sent fireships loaded with pitch, brimstone, and gunpowder directly into the heart of the Armada.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

You don't invite two guys to the same rich snooty dinner party charity thingy. Haven't you ever seen a movie in your life? Now one of us has to kill the other one.

Soldiers defending a country at war are not subject to the rules of procedure designed for court trials. For example, if a soldier encounters an enemy, under internationally agreed upon rules of war, that soldier can take whatever action is necessary to protect himself and neutralize his enemy, whether it involves capturing and detaining the enemy or killing him on the spot.

And blood in torrents pourIn vain—always in vain,For war breeds war again.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

War is failure of diplomacy.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

As soon as there was two there was pride

Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by fate,And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate.

War is the trade of Kings.

And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.

A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.

So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.