Quotes About Conflict

Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching-bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait till you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until

Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.

It is often said that there are no atheists in foxholes. It seems to me that shelled bunkers would be full of skeptics. In the middle of a war it must be harder, not easier, to believe in a good God.

Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.

Every family is a cruel, intransigent monarchy.

Violence never gives you a specific feeling that it's time to knock it off. That's because it is impossible to satisfy.

There is nothing as frustrating as being consumed with rage over someone and knowing that you aren't even on their mind. You want your enemy to be engaged in a struggle until the death with you. Otherwise you are fighting yourself. I mean we are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don't like it to be so painfully obvious.

Love was a paltry, meek thing; it was guilt that spoke in such operatic statements.

We are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don't like it to be so painfully obvious.

Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.

A few of the villagers began to stone us and our children.

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

They loved each other, but neither Would venture to speak thereof; They glared at each other like enemies And wanted to die of love.

Sie liebten sich beide, doch keiner Wollt es dem andern gestehn; Sie sahen sich an so feindlich, Und wollten vor Liebe vergehn. Sie trennten sich endlich und sahn sich Nur noch zuweilen im Traum; Sie waren längst gestorben, Und wußten es selber kaum.

Ben bu toplumun d???na at?lm?? olmasayd?m, insan topluluÄŸuna açt???m bu savaÅŸ, kötü bir davran?? say?labilirdi.

Adalet duygusu, Kohlhaas'? bir haydut, bir katil yapt?.

Actually last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little angora crop top told me he was gay a sex addict a narcotic addict a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo.

Bridget: Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.

But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.