Quotes About Conflict

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, and Bakke was an engagement whose antecedents were at Gettysburg and Shiloh.

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

I thought we were better then this." "We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes.

The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both men were carrying -- or at least aiming -- what could only be categorised as small artillery pieces: two bulky gas-powered spinguns, so heavy that they had to be strapped to their bodies via thick leather girdles. Malkin was aiming at the angels, more or less.

She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

It's sad that in the struggle for my country's freedom, I have lost my personal freedom.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

Me and my brothers all have different personalities and we definitely clash over living together in a small space.

People often talk about George Best and Alex Higgins as two similar personalities... but the truth is that Best did not like Alex.

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

War is a perversion of sex.

A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in dark and pessimistic settings.

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

I've grown up around that sort of petty crime, getting into trouble and trying to get out of it. What's funny is my dad was an inspector in the police, so I was known as the grass.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.