Quotes tagged ‘Conflict’

“Sometimes you have to kill to preserve.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Captain Theresa Yao, Jean Yoon, imdb.com

“Sometimes you need to exert pressure where it’s most effective, especially in times of war.”

— Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Sadavir Errinwright, Shawn Doyle, imdb.com

“When losers seek peace, they look even weaker.”

— Georgia Lee, Sadavir Errinwright, Shawn Doyle, imdb.com

“The history of organized religion isn’t exactly strife-free.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, Chad L. Coleman, imdb.com

“When parents fight, the child has a crisis of loyalty.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Chrisjen Avasarala, Shohreh Aghdashloo, imdb.com

“Nothing in this war between cousins is simple.”

— Steven Knight, Edgar Dumbarton, Michael Kelly, imdb.com

“The demand for flags is always high in times of war.”

— Steven Knight, Edgar Dumbarton, Michael Kelly, imdb.com

“The course of the conflict isn't determined by the person who initiates but by the person who responds.”

— Mark Steilen, Duncan, Griffin Birney, imdb.com

“Pichael Thompson: And then they found out I was attached along for the ride and they said, 'Ah, shit. Well, just fuck it, call him Pichael.' Michael Thompson: [throws papers at Pichael's face] Fuck you, Pichael! You're a fucking piece of shit!”

— Ryan Ridley, Dan Guterman, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Pichael Thompson, imdb.com

“It is not enough to yearn for peace. We must work, and if necessary, fight for it. The task of creating a sound international organization is complicated and difficult. Yet, without such organization, the rights of man on earth cannot be protected. Machinery for the just settlement of international…”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“Tell me who defends you, and I will tell you who you are! Tell me who attacks you, and I will tell you who you are!”

— Fidel Castro, marxists.org

“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it.…So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to s…”

— John Muir, en.wikiquote.org

“Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature—and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine—fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the adva…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, all of us are forced to face the truth. Ourselves.”

— Simon Mirren, Penelope Garcia, Kirsten Vangsness, imdb.com

“We have this ideological understanding of conflict, where we say it happens when people want different things. But I think it actually happens when people want the same thing — the same promotion, recognition for doing the same job well, the same toy as a kid.”

— Peter Thiel, washingtonpost.com

“The very efficiency of mass society makes people feel unnecessary, and therein lies a profound threat to our dignity.”

— Sebastian Junger, nationalreview.com

“Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both cou…”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“America has grown by expansion in a practical vacuum; the pioneers of the West had to overcome terrific natural obstacles, but negligible human resistance. The Russia of today had to conquer not only natural but human difficulties: she had to break up the rotten system of the Czars and to assimilate…”

— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org

“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”

— Phil Knight, inc.com

“And we’re at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict, of which if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs, but to fight for our…”

— Steve Bannon, buzzfeed.com