Quotes About Conflict

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look at the U.S. government subsidizing arms exports.

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

Ihn dazu anzustacheln. mich zu lieben, erschien mir fast als ein Verbrechen. Wie sollte ich von ihm eine Liebe verlangen, die ihn krank machte vor lauter schlechtem Gewissen, während sie mir einen zusätzlichen Grund zu leben lieferte?

War is like air, in every house, in every land, on every sea.

Sposo Adolfo, ma il mio amore è Paco.

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I was shocked at the anger toward me.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

Thus we come to the final paradox that while the best way to avoid atomic warfare is to get rid of war itself, the strongest present ally in the effort to get rid of war is the capacity to resort to atomic warfare at a moments notice.

Look, if the reason you two aren't speaking doesn't make sense, then the reason you contact him again doesn't have to make sense, either. If nothing makes sense, act accordingly.

But can't it sometimes take one to tango? Don't underserved blows often come out of the blue?

There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

Why do we fight?" he asked. "Because we were born.

When I am your age, when the years have thinned my blood, when rage has cooled into judgment, then I will go in for treaties, compromises. Now, I must fight.

When hero confronts monster in these myths it is apt to be a family quarrel.

Euripides was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

We are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.