Quotes About Conflict

At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

There's no facade; it's very real. I just don't get along with Ronda, and we don't see eye to eye on anything. We're just two completely different people. People can tell that our rivalry is very raw. It's very, very real.

I could not do Satyajit Ray's 'Kanchenjunga' because I had already committed the daters he wanted to shoot on to other producers.

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

I'm sure it's one of the most frustrating aspects of human experience for all of us, that when we tell someone who's hurt us that they've hurt us, they tend to react with anger because they feel guilty, and we know we also get angry when we feel guilty.

You have to have an enemy to react against. We think it's important to have a sort of us-versus-them situation.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

When I'm arguing, I'm competing. I'm trying to win a game. And if that's what's called for, it's just a reaction.

If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

I read a lot of war literature.

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.

Not to get political, but it seems like every day I read the paper, and you're reading about nuclear war and Russians taking over the country and Nazis again. It's like every once in a while, the world blinks for a second, and it goes, 'Darkseid is!' The world has changed, and it's changed in a 'Darkseid is' way.