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Conflict Quotes
"None of the parties want this conflict to go on."
113
"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
103
"Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict."
99
"If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully."
82
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
55
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
54
"You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns."
54
"Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered."Yeah, said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."
48
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
46
"A woman's voice answered, "Hello?"Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!""This is a recording," recited the woman's voice. "Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool so she may call you when she returns? Hello? This is a recording. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message -"He hung up.He sat with his mouth twitching.On second thought he redialed that number."When Miss Helen Arasumian comes home," he said, "tell her to go to hell."
40
"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."
38
"Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."
38
"Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area."
37
"He actually did it, didn't he?" Marsh said, shaking his head in wonder. "That bastard. There are two things I'll never forgive him for. The first is for stealing my dream of overthrowing the Final Empire, then actually succeeding at it."Vin paused. "And the second?"Marsh turned spike-heads towards her. "Getting himself killed to do it."
36
"Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. However, just because you know and understand the nature of something or someone, does not mean that you will come to terms."
36
"When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave."
36
"Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image."
35
"In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future."
33
"Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?"
33
"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."
33
"Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression."
30
"The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose."
29
"When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens."
29
"Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible."
28
"The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion."
28
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