Quotes about Conflict
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
— Jimmy Carter
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.
— William James
The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
— Henry Cloud
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
— Miroslav Volf
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
— Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
— Winston Churchill
The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
— Winston Churchill
What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
— Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
— Winston Churchill
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
— Winston Churchill