Quotes About Conflict

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fully support Israel in its right to survive terror attacks.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

The crux is this: you can't be sincerely empathic towards and angry at someone at the same moment. In other words, you can't walk in someone else's shoes and step on their toes at the same time.

I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.

Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.

Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.

My theory is that women simply can't get along with each other or work well together.

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

While we do not want war, we will not tolerate any bullying by Beijing.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don't even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn't tolerate that, as she shouldn't from a 14-year-old.

We have found Kashmiri terrorists in Punjab. How are we expected to tolerate all this?

Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Bombers flew above the wattles, over an England filled with songs of linnets and thrush. There were things being broken we had no American names for.

Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between

The euphoria lasted only days. Chicago's elites had been beefing up public and private security forces for years. On May 3, police shot strikers at the gates to the McCormick harvester factory.