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Quotes About Conflict

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
~ Howard Dean
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
~ Immanuel Kant
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
~ Juan Cole
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
~ Anthony Trollope
We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
~ Bashar al-Assad
you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!
~ Bill Maher
Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.
~ Charlie Sheen
You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
~ Don Henley
It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.
~ Henry Rollins
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
~ James Anthony Froude
We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.
~ James MacArthur
At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
~ Jane Harman
Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.
~ Jemele Hill
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
~ Jose Padilha
Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.
~ Malcolm X
If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.
~ Michael Scheuer
There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.
~ Sean Hannity
It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.
~ Shelley Long
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
~ William Barclay
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
~ Bob Feller
The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
~ Anne McCaffrey
There come times when we have to fight for peace.
~ Billy Graham