Quotes About Conflict

All arguments, at their core, were about power. Who had it. Who wanted it. Who would surrender. Who would prevail.

When a couple argued about money, it was never about money. It was about power and self-worth and judgment;

He was killed while serving in the military, during operation Desert Storm." She had only the vaguest recollection of the conflict. She had been in grade school when it was going on, and the conflict had been as remote as a space shuttle launch. Seeing the man in the picture, with his hauntingly familiar smile, suddenly made it real to her. "I'm terribly sorry.

watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel

Beethoven has given us a confession and a credo which we, who work within and for this Organization, may well make our own. We take part in the continuous fight between conflicting interests and ideologies which so far has marked the history of mankind.

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.

Soldiers, I am sorry to say, steal everything." He thought for a moment and then added, "Or at least ours do." How

She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest

Mr Norrell assured Mr Strange that he would find war very disagreeable. "One is often wet and cold upon a battlefield. You will like it a great deal less than you suppose.

Freud answers by suggesting that the harshness that can be shown by the superego is a result of the channelling of part of the id's destructiveness through the superego.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference ' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

imperialism carries the contradictions of capitalism to their last bounds, to the extreme limit, beyond which revolution begins. Of these contradictions, there are three which must be regarded as the most important.

I admire Trotsky, but for propaganda purposes, we must have someone to hate. Since 1937, we have had no one.

One of the surest means of preserving peace is always to be prepared for war.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

A shocking five thousand US sailors and naval officers were killed during the Guadalcanal campaign