Quotes About Conflict

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

It is hard to say which reflected better on Hillgarth: the admiration of Fleming and Churchill or Philby's animosity.

Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

As so often in the history of communism, the bloodshed came not from external forces but through vicious infighting.

In 1917, the British Army, under General Sir

these people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance...

Wars are not fought on battlegrounds but in a space smaller than the head of a needle.

This is no time for morals; it's kill or be killed, and that's all there is to it.

Like most Southerners, I visit battlefields. Southerners will visit almost any battlefield anywhere, but we are especially fond of the Civil War scenes because we know who fought where and how they did their fighting.

Whenever rules or guidance threatened the interests of favored groups, political pressure followed.

that Greenspan opposed it, "so I didn't really pursue it.

the increasing hostility of Republicans to the Fed and to me personally troubled me,

The senator believed I was doing a good job but, for political reasons, had to vote against me.

however, Greenspan remained firmly opposed.

It is the left that uses the clubs of race and class to attack those on the right; it is the left that labels religious people and traditional values people rubes and simpletons,

It's far more common for leftists to routinely pick up weapons and try to kill those with whom they disagree than it is for those on the other side of the ideological spectrum.

For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being. The

That's the way it will go because that's how the left wins: through intimidation and cruelty. You

SHAPIRO: This is astonishing. MORGAN: What's astonishing? SHAPIRO: What's astonishing about it is for weeks now, you have been saying that anybody who disagrees with your position is absurd, idiotic, and doesn't care about the dead kids in Sandy Hook. And then when I say that it's a bullying tactic, you turn around and that say I'm bullying you for saying that. It's absurd. It's ridiculous.

The French Revolution, then, led not only to the rise of the nation-state and nationalism more broadly, it also opened the door to total war—the end of the distinction between civilian and military, and the willingness to weaponize an entire population toward the ends of governments.

This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you. And if they can instill that sense of moral superiority in others by making you the bad guy, they will. People on the left are taught from childhood that they are better than conservatives – it makes them feel good to hate conservatives. And that hatred is justified because, after all, conservatives are bigots.

People on the left are taught from childhood that they are better than conservatives – it makes them feel good to hate conservatives. And that hatred is justified because, after all, conservatives are bigots.

All that will be left are polarized groups, seeking their own interests.

The left knows this is war. And