Quotes About Conflict

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

I wouldn't trust a man and woman who never had their fights.

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

when there is a bit mistrust, jealousy will arise and ended with misunderstanding

if the conditions and or circumstances are right anybody will turn against anyone...

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.