Quotes About Conflict

The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist.

The tips of my overgrown bangs dip into the wet of my tears. My fingers, forehead, moisten with sweat. I fight the slipperiness, press the valves firmly, play the love, the hate, the misery, the hope, the freedom that I wanted, never wanted, can't have; that doesn't exist.

By 1938, the Greek state had redistributed about 40 percent of all arable land in Greece, creating some 310,000 small family farms, a revolutionary achievement that took place without the kind of bloody agrarian conflict so common elsewhere.

As elsewhere, war forged Greeks out of peasants.

Why do Japanese commandos fire Czech machine guns at Puerto Rican passengers departing an Air France flight in an Israeli airport? To strike at American Imperialism!" p. 155, footnote 13

He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun

Când un om sau domn e puternic si tare, atunci poate face pacea cum vrea dar, cand e fara putere, unul mai tare va veni asupra lui si va face cu el ceea ce va voi

we saw a female attack another female from her own community, and then steal and eat her infant.

Backed into a corner, the poor can riot, but the rich start war.

Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.

There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes into safe harbour he longs to be back in the turmoil.

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)

Este es uno de los secretos de casi todas las revoluciones y el destino trágico de sus caudillos: sin tener sed de sangre, verse obligados a derramarla.

War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary.

Ningún orden moral puede obtenerse por la fuerza, pues toda violencia engendra inevitablemente violencia.

el hombre que pugna por seguir siendo él mismo, simplemente él mismo, en medio de una catarata de fanatismo y destrucción.

Robespierre) SaÄŸduyu ve erdeme a??r? baÄŸnazl?kla baÄŸl? bir kiÅŸi olarak, kar??s?ndakilerin anlaÅŸmak ve boyun eÄŸmek için yapt?klar? bütün baÅŸvurmalar? geri çevirir. Hatta politikan?n anlaÅŸmaya zorlad??? durumlarda bile onun sert kinciliÄŸi ve kat? gururu buna engel olur.

Tragische Spannung, sie ergibt sich nicht nur aus dem Übermaß einer Gestalt, sondern jederzeit aus dem Mißverhältnis eines Menschen zu seinem Schicksal.

O an Schramek hakk?nda akl?ndan geçenleri kad?nlar da erkeklerin kar??s?nda düÅŸünüyor olmal?yd?lar; kin ve öfke duyuyor, ama yine de güçlü birine teslim olman?n hoÅŸ duygusuna kap?l?yorlard?.

cuándo la razón es capaz de hacer algo contra el propio sentimiento!

Une révolution, il le sait, dans son expérience précoce, n'appartient jamais au premier qui la déclenche, mais toujours au dernier qui la termine, et qui la tire à lui, – comme un butin.

Zavall? galipler olarak Tallien ve Barras, kendilerinden önceki ihtilal büyüklerine, Danton ve Robespierre'e katillerin cesetleri diye söverek, saÄŸ yandaki s?ralara, Cumhuriyetin gizli düÅŸmanlar? olan ?l?ml? politikac?lar?n yan?na korka korka oturduklar? an, yaln?zca tarihe ve ihtilal ruhuna deÄŸil, kendi kendilerine de ihanet etmiÅŸ oluyorlar.

SavaÅŸla ilgili normal ve insanc?l bir görüÅŸe sahip olabilmek için tek bir olas?l?k vard?r: sava??n fark?nda olmak ve sava?? kendileri asla cephede bulunmam?? savaÅŸ ç???rtkanlar?ndan dinlememek.