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Conflict Quotes


"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."


"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."


"None of the parties want this conflict to go on."


"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."


"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."


"If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully."


"Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area."


"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."


"Don't condemn me to the prison of your bullshit."


"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."


"The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion."


"When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable."


"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."



"The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists."


"Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression."


"As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century."


"What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two."


"The reason you don't succeed in life is because you are too lenient with your deadly enemies. Identify them and eradicate them completely, don't let any of their seed escape your vengeful sword. Don't negotiate with the enemy and never make deals with them. Only after you have wiped them out of the map will success smile at you."


"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."


"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."


"Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible."


"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."


"In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen."


"The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground."


"How often do you have to drink? "Every night, to feel good. Every few nights, to stay sane. "Have you ever bitten anyone? "No. I'm not a murderer. "Does it have to be fatal every time? The biting? Couldn't you just drink some of a person's blood, then walk away? "I can't believe you're asking me this, Snow. You, who can't walk away from half a sandwich."



"The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement."


"The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us."


"The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests."


"Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee."
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