Conflict Quotes

When there are no conflicts in you between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear,
Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear,
Ye Jacobites by name,
Your fautes I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear.

He was still my lighthouse and my albatross in equal measure.

He was still my lighthouse and my albatross in equal measure.

My message to them will be we need peace, we need to stop some of these aggressive actions, we need North Korea to participate in the 2005 agreement to denuclearize and we need to stop some of the aggressive actions, especially with respect to South Korea.

I expect you to rock their world. Wipe them out if that is what they choose. But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war.

The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

We are in an armed conflict; that is the phrase I have used. There has been no declaration of war.

The volunteers in Afghanistan and Iraq are the idealists of today, and the people who want the "boys" (they're not boys, BTW, they're men) brought home are total cynics. They'd be cheering Chamberlain if he was around today, the creeps.

I'd rather be an armchair warrior... than an armchair appeaser any day of the week.

People who volunteer to go into war zones, be it as fighters or as doctors, are not misguided and ignorant – they are simply far braver and more selfless than the rest of us.

If Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

This is an existential conflict. It is the kind of conflict that's going to drive our policy and our government for the next 20 or 30 or 40 years. We have to prevail and we have to have the stomach for the fight long term.