Quotes About Conflict

There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Throughout history, the men competing to shape the future had collected lost sheep to use as pawns in their game, cannon fodder in their wars.

when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there's just something wrong with your profession

To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants.

There are no good guys in this game. There's only bad guys, and less bad guys.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

Politics: A combination of "poli" meaning many, and "tics" meaning irritating little bugs.

(Concerning Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine) "This might be just the thing to push South Korean President Park Geun Hye a little bit closer back in China's direction, just as she was presumably pulling away.

War is the way that gods breed cowards

JSOC was going to war.

A few hundhred scrawls o' chaps with a couple o' guns and Rosary beads, again' a hundhred thousand thrained men with horse, fut an' artillery… an' he wants us to fight fair!

One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you're runnin' for th' priest an' th' doctor.

Sisters are like that; you can't spend too much time with them without fighting about something.

I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.

There can be no peace because peace is the lie. Strength comes only from conflict, and for there to be conflict there must be an enemy.

There's no soldier don't have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that's just a fact.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

I cannot hardly speak to myself let alone to him. I feel the world is against me and at the same time I feel miserably at odds with everything. I have the awkward sense that if I open my mouth people will know me for the villain I am. At the same time, or in the next breath, tears keep surging up into my eyes, tears of some righteousness, because my mind keeps rising to righteousness. All in all I am like a ragged wind in a tangled hedge.

Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.

This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back the papers of their soles.

The first cousin of an order is chaos. Terror is just the cousin of courage too.

Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in their own time and place.

Other times you had a rake of our lads killed, and a rake of the old grey-suited devils, and you wouldn't know who had won the fucking thing, sure how could you tell boys?