Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

War is the business of barbarians.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

A siege is an act of war.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

War is what happens when language fails.

People like to talk about war.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.