Quotes About Conflict

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

Pakistan is running away from talks which will be held only when we get reply. Time available is only tonight.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow.

Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

What happened to him? (Lioness) He pissed me off. (Savitar) Why hasn't one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness) He pissed me off...big time. (Savitar)

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

I lay in bed that March morning, listening to noises from below stairs and priding myself on the fact that I had kept peace in the house since January. If I didn't, we might all kill each other. Not with guns, no. We'd had our fill of guns with the war. But with words, the way civilized people kill each other every day.

felt that he just wanted somebody to keep a house clean for him and do the shopping and the cooking. He was always in the garage with his cars, working on them, doing something. All he wanted was food and sex, and that was it. Any time we did talk, it would end up in arguments.

Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?

All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.