Quotes About Conflict

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

Half of my heart's got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!