Conflict Inevitability Quotes

Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.

This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

When you have a group of 30 people together, there's going to be people who don't like each other. That's just simple facts.

[Response to the question "Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?”]: No, it is not … because you have the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped - as well as equipped as any army in the world - and an air force, against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.

When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

You can't make everybody happy.

It's impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.

Persia is only delaying out fate; it cannot save us. When the Turks have settled with Persia they will fly at our throats, supported by the might of the whole East. How unprepared we are I dare not say.

They have to stop fighting Islam, but that’s impossible because it is “sunnatullah” as Allah has said in the Koran. They will constantly be enemies. … but they will lose and Islam will win. That was what the Prophet Muhammad has said. Islam must win and Westerners will be destroyed. But we don’t have to make them enemies if they allow Islam to continue to grow so that in the end they will probably agree to be under Islam. If they refuse to be under Islam, it will be chaos. Full stop. If they want to have peace, they have to accept to be governed by Islam.