Quotes about Conflict

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

War presents itself as necessary for self-protection, when in fact it is necessary for self-identification.

Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Nothing will give you emotional laryngitis like living in close proximity to someone who refuses to listen. Having emotions but no voice chokes the life out of relationships.