Quotes About Conflict

When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.

The war between light and darkness is not fought between countries, ethnic groups, or religious factions, but waged within each of us, every day.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Está enojado por la noticia de que el ejército israelita solo mató a todos los hombres, tomando prisioneros a las mujeres y los niños. En su celo, alimentado por la conciencia del pacto, Moisés insiste en matar a todos los niños y a las mujeres adultas, perdonando solo a las niñas vírgenes: "Pero a todas las niñas entre las mujeres que no hayan conocido varón, las dejaréis con vida para vosotros

the inevitable tension between knowledge and innocence

Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up.

The young woman continued to frown, displaying her irritation. 'You would continue on and leave one of our brethren in this manner? Unblessed and unburied?' Her voice was sharp and angry.

As a result, periods of intense conflict tend to recur with a period of roughly two generations (40–60 years). These swings in the social mood may be termed "bi-generation cycles" because they involve alternating generations that are either prone to conflict, or not.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Negative peace answers often included references to theft and criminality.

War is too important to be left to the generals.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

Come on, you guys." Caraco leans back against the drying rack. "Can't you settle this some other way? Maybe you could just whip out a ruler and compare your dicks or something.

I'll kill you if I can." "I'll save you," it said. "If you let me.

And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who've never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?

YOU CANNOT PREVENT AND PREPARE FOR WAR AT THE SAME TIME —Albert Einstein

The vampires win every time.

Ludzie naprawdÄ™ nie walczÄ… o odcieÅ" skóry czy ideologiÄ™ – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji "swoich". Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza siÄ™ do wiÄ™zów krwi i ograniczonych zasobów.

How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?

What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots? But

Any race which can't rise above its own brutal instincts will wipe itself out long before it learns to bridge the interstellar gulf.

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

Not even Lucifer left Heaven until he was pushed.