Quotes About Conflict

You damn morphodite, I'll kill you!

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

He said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up, but it did no good.

Well, in the first place, you stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it- you just lit right into me. When Jem an' I fuss Atticus doesn't ever listen to just Jem's side of it, he hears mine too

Of course Jem antagonized me sometimes until I could kill him, but when it came down to it he was all I had.

It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.

on what we heard—" "Now don't you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain't ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man. . . ." But Jem took exception to Reverend Sykes, and we were subjected to a lengthy review of the evidence with Jem's ideas on the law regarding rape: it wasn't rape if she let you, but she had to be eighteen—in Alabama

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

It was Miss Stephanie's pleasure to tell us: this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of his life.

No war was ever fought for so many different reasons.

Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him.

Uncle Jack, I can't live in a place that I don't agree with and that doesn't agree with me.

Ako postoji samo jedna vrsta ljudi,zašto se ne slažu?Ako su svi sli?ni,zašto toliko preziru jedni druge?

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads

Don't you understand that?" "I understand that you're a goddamned hypocrite.

Jean Louise had a sinking feeling. The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.

Kažkas yra m?s? gyvenime, kas ver?ia žmones pamesti galvas - jie nori b?ti teisingi, o negali.

We wondered when your conscience and his would part company.

Jean Louise, when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stovewood or a citizens' council." "That

A mí me dijo que tener un arma equivale a invitar al otro a que te dispare

Uncle Jack," she said. "What am I going to do about Hank?" "What you will eventually," he said. "Let him down easy?" "Um hum." "Why?" "He's not your kind." Love whom you will, marry your own kind. "Look, I'm not going to argue with you over the relative merits of trash—" "That has nothing to do with it. I'm tired of you. I want my supper.

Mr. Clinton," he had said, when Henry ventured to inquire about a particularly ambiguous examination, "you may write until doomsday for all I care, but if your answers do not coincide with my answers they are wrong. Wrong, sir.