Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

‚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.

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.

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.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

I want to show audiences I can act.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

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.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I like a drama.

War is the business of barbarians.

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

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

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

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

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

War settles nothing.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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.

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

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

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

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.