Conflict Source Quotes

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future

There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

Mankind runs a major risk of the shortage of fresh water. Water is a major source of life but could well be a major source of conflict.

The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership, including my father, they're responsible; they're responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.

Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

Every show needs a jerk. I guess I'm that guy.

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.

If you're a baboon on the Serengeti, and you're miserable, it's almost certainly because some other baboon has had the free time and energy to devote to making you miserable.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

I've always found people to be by far the biggest problem-causers in life.

Disarmament of itself does not produce peace or security. Only removing the source of conflict does.

Woman is also the element of conflict.