Quotes About Conflict

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

One person's rebel is another person's freedom fighter, isn't it?

I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

I thought the best way to topple Assad was not through airstrikes, but through equipping the moderate rebel elements.

My relationship with my dad will always be strained, but that just goes to show, I guess, that I'm doin' a pretty good job of bein' myself, and bein' a rebel.

I'm a kind of double-breasted rebel in that I've always believed the important thing is that generations react against one another. For instance, there was always something oddly creative about the fact that Hanoverian sons hated their fathers so much.

I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

There are some people bent on blowing up the situation in the country. I call them the fifth column. They are not an opposition. They want to stage a rebellion in the country. Their dream is to topple the government and overthrow the president.

By the time I graduated from high school, though, I was in a bit of a rebellious phase towards everything I had known growing up.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that Saddam was fundamentally Adolf Hitler reborn. I think his feelings towards Saddam were in fact quite genuine and quite legitimately hostile. He was not play acting.

The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand. That's when it's newsworthy. When the war ends, it's not newsworthy anymore; no one wants to think about it. Actually, the aftermath is the most important part. It's when people have to rebuild.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

Gadhafi opponents included many 'good guys,' but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

It's a tough situation as a defender to be put in. I understand what they're doing trying to protect quarterbacks. I've been on the receiving end of a few of those where you appreciate them trying to take care of you a little bit, but I do see the conflict that it puts a defender in.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.