Kofi Annan Quotes

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

Fighting is not my life.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

My only goal ever in a fight was to go in there and create chaos. Now, I want to control the chaos that hate's created. I want to fight in the right spots.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

I don't fight people for fun.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.