Quotes about Conflict

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

There in the course of one hour, a little elderly woman who embodied the spirit of nonviolence single-handedly prevented loss of life, and a preppie young man with fast fists flying also prevented violence. I would not presume to judge who was doing the will of God on that snowy February afternoon.

Two days wrong! sighed the Hatter. I told you butter wouldn't suit the works! he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. It was the best butter, the March Hare meekly replied.