Quotes About Confrontation

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

beat down the door, and then amid the shrieks and prayers of the affrighted nuns

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

At least three viewpoints are identifiable in Arab attitudes: a small, dedicated, but not very vocal group accepting genuine coexistence with Israel and prepared to work for it; a much larger group seeking to destroy Israel by permanent confrontation; and those willing to negotiate with Israel but justifying negotiations, at least domestically, in part as a means to overcome the Jewish state in stages.

The two sides need to absorb the history of the decade before World War I, when the gradual emergence of an atmosphere of suspicion and latent confrontation escalated into catastrophe. The leaders of Europe trapped themselves by their military planning and inability to separate the tactical from the strategic.

The Middle East is caught in a confrontation akin to—but broader than—Europe's pre-Westphalian wars of religion. Domestic and international conflicts reinforce each other. Political, sectarian, tribal, territorial, ideological, and traditional national-interest disputes merge. Religion is "weaponized" in the service of geopolitical objectives; civilians are marked for extermination based on their sectarian affiliation.

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.

Without a defined enemy, some people wouldn't know how to get through the day. When there's no enemy, they make one. An enemy does not occur naturally. Animals may have conflict but it is survival motivated. It is Homo sapiens who seek out others and hit them until they hit back. It is as old as the first line drawn in the sand. Isn't it easier to fight than think?

At one point two guys looked to start fighting and I yelled for them to kill each other and then they made up and I told them to fuck each other.

if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.

But what can I do?' - I answer those who speak thus. - '... must I therefore not point out the evil which I clearly, unquestionably see?

In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.

Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack, ahead of everyone.

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

he saw the fire only as a glow, but forgot on that fire which he should have opened on the enemy.

En el combate, un hombre miedoso está perdido. El valor, más aún que exponer, se impone, porque la muerte también, con tal de que se la mire a la cara, se deja asustar

In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

Inner liberation stems from the ability to face life's challenges without drama, escape, or avoidance. The way to begin this path is by confronting our darkest truths and accepting our reality. Only then can we unshackle ourselves.

It wasn't sealed - she opened the flap. Inside was a cheque for a thousand dollars. Made out to her. From Daniel. It was a colossal slap in the face.

Where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.