Clash Quotes

We have reaffirmed again and again that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace, and when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them, there's only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country. So, we reject any suggestion of a clash of civilizations.

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Politics is war without the bloodshed.

Peace is obtained by war.

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

I think it's going to be a doosey. I mean, talk about a fistfight in a whorehouse.

Peace is produced by war.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Some voices don't blend. They just kinda rub against each other.

Politics is a body contact sport.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

This is not a clash of civilizations or religions, and it reaches far beyond Islam and America, on which efforts are being made to focus the conflict in order to create the delusion of a visible confrontation and a solution based upon force. There is indeed a fundamental antagonism here, but one that points past the specter of America (which is perhaps the epicenter, but in no sense the sole embodiment, of globalization) and the specter of Islam (which is not the embodiment of terrorism either) to triumphant globalization battling against itself.

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.

Little wars start big wars.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

I would fight them if they were a million!

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.