Quotes About Conflict

Komunisti?ko društvo lišava individuu svojih odgovornosti: uvijek su oni ti koji odlu?uju...Istina, svi kao i oni najbli?i Staljinu, davali su zlo?inu suprotan efekat. Mi smo zlo?ine prihvatili kao važne doprinose pobjedi socijalizma. Vjerovali smo kako je sve što ja?a politi?ku mo? komunisti?ke partije u SSSR i svijetu pobjeda za socijalizam. Nikada nismo mogli zamisliti da može biti sukoba u unutrašnjosti komunizma izmedju politike i etike.

La cuestión de saber a quién pertenecerá el poder en el país, esto es si la burguesía debe vivir o perecer, no se resolverá por lo que dicten los artículos de la constitución sino recurriendo a todas las formas de violencia»

Prema iskustvu gradjanskog rata protiv Kozaka neophodno je odobriti kao jedinu politi?ki korektnu mjeru, nemilosrdnu borbu, masovni teror protiv bogatih Kozaka, koje bi trebalo istrijebiti i fizi?ki likvidirati do posljednje - tajna rezolucija Centralnog komiteta Boljševi?ke partije od 24.01.1919.

Durante tres años, la política de requisas iba a provocar miles de sublevaciones y de motines, que degeneraron en verdaderas guerras campesinas reprimidas con la mayor violencia.

It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.

But if war itself is Mars, as speech is Mercury, I wish it were as true that there were no war to be falsely called a god, as it is true that it is not a god.

Lord, have pity on me. My evil sorrows strive with my good joys; and on which side is the victory, I know not.

There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.

For not even lions or dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with one another.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.

Well, she can't have it both ways, can she? Just like a woman to want it, though.

you can do against Milton.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Don't you ever turn your back on me when I'm talking. CITIGROUP SENIOR EXECUTIVE JAMIE DIMON TO THE COMPANY'S VICE CHAIRMAN, DERYCK MAUGHAN, AT A BLACK-TIE DINNER. WHEN MAUGHAN TURNED AWAY FROM HIM, DIMON GRABBED HIM BY THE SHOULDERS AND SPUN HIM AROUND, POPPING A BUTTON FROM THE LAPEL OF HIS DINNER JACKET

There are those who treat every human interaction as a military engagement that could escalate into a potential battle leading to a nice, satisfying conflict that's part of a war. There is a name for such people. They're called assholes.

Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. George Bernard Shaw

It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and that the victims are the result of a conflict that somebody else started. "[Caligula and DeSade] were expressing through the license of...power their outrage and boredom, and apparently meaningless lives. That these attitudes have filtered down to the lower classes is what is new.

Liebchen,with whom should I quarrelexcept in the hiss of love,that harsh, irregular flame?

It is clear that the disagreement between the authorities completely paralyzed action. Not

On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition—not to determine who was right, but who was left.

Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars—for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.