Quotes About Conflict

When men are employ'd, they are best content'd; for on the days they worked they were good-natur'd and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their pork, the bread, etc.

There is no small enemy.

It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.

I hope...that all mankind will at length…have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats.

Maxima bella ex levissimis causis:

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ?violence. If the Jews put ?down their weapons ?today, there would be no ?more Israel'?

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Here were people who clearly wished Israel well, yet who did not know something so elementary as the fact that the Arab world is more than five hundred times the size of the Jewish state. They did not realize that the Israel they were incessantly hearing about and seeing every day on their television screens is all of forty miles wide (including the West Bank), and that if it were to give up the entire West Bank, it would be ten miles wide.

the Arab world is more than five hundred times the size of the Jewish state.

Fear beats logic every time,

Violence defines humanity and determines headlines and elections and borders, the whole world boiled down to who hits whom harder.

A violência é o que define a humanidade, é ela que determina manchetes, decide eleições e estabelece fronteiras; o mundo inteiro se reduz à questão de quem bate em quem com mais força.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.