Every conflict can be removed.

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity…

— Michael Mandelbaum

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it…

— Simone Weil

“I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but…

— Jared Brock

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

— Bertrand Russell

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

— Theodor Adorno

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

— Buzz Aldrin

“When we removed your son, we replaced him with nothing!”

— Julius Malema

“Daily chronic fatigue can be an indication that something is wrong in your environment that needs to be identified and removed.”

— Steven Magee

“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at that framed…

— Catherine Lacey

We got latched together and I was hoping you could separate us? (Amanda) They were made by your stepfather. Any chance you have a…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

— Jan Hammer

One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have…

— Bill Ayers

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero