Quotes About Conflict

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

those who believe in facts and logic will quickly discover that the United States and its Allies are mainly responsible for this trainwreck. the April 2008 decision to bring Ukraine and Georgia into Nato was destined to lead to conflict with Russia. the Bush administration was the principal architect of that fateful choice, but the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have doubled down on that policy at every turn...

If you really want to wreck Russia, encourage them to try and swallow Ukraine. That's like swallowing a porcupine.

I always knew when Mom was pissed at me. She called me Joey T. My name is Joey. The T is for Tormente, my last name and the persistent feeing I stirred up in her.

It is too late. I love him. I know it may bring me grief, and I can't do a thing about it. Mr. Congreve was right about love being a frailty of the mind.

Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.

God! he swore silently. That man was ever born to be torn and troubled by women!

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Century after century, we have prosecuted our insane conflicts from atop their backs, resting on their sturdy necks when we grew weary, eating their flesh when we were starving, disemboweling them and crawling inside their bodies when we were freezing.

Every unhappy family is periodically ransacked by joy.

he had violently opposed—as had the entire Curia—the foundation of the State of Israel.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

Revenge serves to cleanse the heart and soul. It has been around since the first caveman climbed down out of a tree and bashed his brother over the head for some slight of honor.

A menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.

Normalmente, nos estorbamos los unos a los otros

um nicht in einem völkerrechtswidrigen, unmoralischen Krieg zu kämpfen." "Der Reporter

No nos lastiman aquellos a quienes amamos y respetamos más que aquellos a quienes odiamos y tememos?

The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'35

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

Historically it was Europe, not India, which consistently made religion grounds for war and the state an instrument of persecution.

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.