Quotes About Conflict

I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

When you're in a marriage, you can't leave just because you're arguing all the time. But it does stuff to you that you don't realise at first. It damages you, and you start thinking the worst of people.

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

Passive-aggressive is the worst thing in the world to me!

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.