Quotes About Conflict

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the love of their country.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also confronted with legitimate expectations from the people who want us to respond far more thoroughly to their basic pleas than we would have done in a much more contained form of conflict.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

Each year, about 45 million people are affected by war. Three hundred thousand people die looking down the barrel of a gun - and 200,000 of these are killed in countries ostensibly at peace.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10 20 30 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

Catalina oía, desde su desvalimiento, las carreras y los gritos, el caracolear de los caballos, los cacareos agudos, los gañidos agónicos de los cerdos. Carcajadas brutales se mezclaban con los débiles estertores y el llanto de los niños seguía al estruendo de muebles derribados, de trastos rotos, de telas desgarradas.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Every war makes other wars more likely.

And he feels grateful that he has been left with this one substantial relic of all his years of service and thinks how sincerely he has deserved this. Yet he knows the world in which people deserve things or do not deserve them is passing away. Europe is at war. Fairness is now becoming a word without meaning.

Living is fighting for life, and when anyone does not know this fact, someone else is doing his fighting for him.