Conflict Control Quotes

This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

Wars the United States starts do not necessarily end when and how it wants them to.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

The big wars of the 20th Century, like the two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam, were all wars about elite control.

The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.

Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.