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Quotes About Conflict

What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.
~ Ishmael Beah
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'
~ David Douglas Duncan
I had no desire to go to Iraq. I never wanted to go to Mosul. I'm not a war correspondent. No part of me thrives on the adrenaline or anything like that.
~ Stacey Dooley
'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
~ Duncan Jones
Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward. Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali. You get these rivalries in boxing - not that often, so when you do get them, why do you want to sanitise it?
~ David Haye
If I had to name one thing that probably causes more conflict within the band, it's probably the fact that I'm the girl, and it takes much longer with hair and makeup and wardrobe. But they've gotten used to it. It's one of those things I think they realize that when they say she'll be ready in 10 minutes, it normally means 15 or 20.
~ Hillary Scott
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
~ J. C. Ryle
I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.
~ Tilman J. Fertitta
If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
~ Lewis Thomas
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
~ Jim Mattis
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
~ George Herbert Mead
A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.
~ Martin Dempsey
All warfare is based on deception.
~ Unknown
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
~ James Madison
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
~ Alan Dershowitz
If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.
~ Anand Gopal
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
~ Thomas E. Mann
Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.
~ Charles Stanley
We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.
~ Peter Maurer
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.
~ Joe Sestak