Quotes about Conflict

I was asked to perform at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. But I was up a tree in Borneo filming a documentary about Alfred Russel Wallace! So it couldn't be done.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

The equalization of fortunes may have some slight tendency to stifle animosity and to prevent dissension. But its effect is always inconsiderable, and often doubtful; since those who think themselves entitled to superiority will not patiently brook equality.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him. The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn't want to get hold of me again. No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.