Conflict Intervention Quotes

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

I think, as a professional, inside the cage you can fix anything.

I remember a show in New Jersey several years ago when a big fight broke out in the crowd. I took the microphone and introduced Frank Sinatra. He wasn't there, but even the guys creating the disturbance stopped to look.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

NBC had a show called 'The Toughest Bouncer in America' that I did. But I told them I didn't like that term, 'bouncer.' To me, it's offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight

Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

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.

Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.

You're either in a conflict or you're not in a conflict.

I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars - unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.

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.

This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

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.

If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.