Quotes About Conflict

If he were a philosopher king or a benevolent dictator, the only jobs he thought he might enjoy more than his current occupation, he'd have a rule that you could only authorize a war if you were actually going to go off and personally fight it. That'd get the politicians singing "Kumbaya" right quick.

I shifted my head slightly. The corners of our mouths brushed together. I felt her breath on my cheek. Then we were kissing. Her mouth was warm and soft. Our tongues entwined and simultaneously I thought Oh, you fucking idiot and Oh, that feels so good.

We had each spent two years with what Uncle Sam at the time affectionately referred to as the Muj, more recently regarded with less warmth as the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and I hadn't seen him, or missed him, since then.

He called you. You're the one who insists on carrying a phone." The moment it came out, he regretted it. When Delilah was pissed, there was no winning move. Your only option was to try to find a way not to play.

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. I

the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, the first Gulf war.

the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated.

The abbot used to say that the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality.

few religions in the history of the human race have shown a greater penchant for conflict than the religion founded on the teachings of Jesus

I have often wondered what would have happened if Paul and Matthew had been locked up in a room together and told they could not come out until they had hammered out a consensus statement on how followers of Jesus were to deal with the Jewish law. Would they ever have emerged, or would they still be there, two skeletons locked in a death grip? If

in situations of conflict: the "enemy" is portrayed as massive and unstoppable, an inherent threat to decency and truth.

Boys grow up to be men . And it's men who cause all the trouble. They're the ones who shed the blood and poison the earth.

My heart was full of hate and love and regret-all those things that have haunted me ever since.

You ought to sue that son of a whore

When traitors are called heroes (or heroes traitors, he supposed in his frowning way), dark times must have fallen.

Shiny happy people don't hold guns in their laps that way.

Anger made men easy.

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I represent reality. And the reality is we don't want you.

the battle in defense of natural resources.

Acheson immediately understood the urgency of this message. He summoned Ambassador Franks and told him that the United States resolutely opposed "the use of force or the threat of the use of force" against Iran, and that Truman himself had "stressed most strongly that no situation should be allowed to develop into an armed conflict between a body of British troops and the Persian forces.

McKinley could not believe that Aguinaldo's insurgents would be so stupid as to resist the power and benevolence of the United States.

Most American-sponsored "regime change" operations have, in the end, weakened rather than strengthened American security.