Quotes About Conflict

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.