Quotes About Conflict

Zweig's golden age of security was shattered forever by the outbreak of the First World War which he viewed, with rather one-dimensional oversimplification, as "a war of brothers brought about by clumsy diplomats and brutal munitions-manufacturers.

Ci fu una grande battaglia di idee e alla fine non ci furono né vincitori, né vinti, né idee.

My soundless feet shall fly among the runners Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid, My still voice cheer the Anti-Aircraft gunners, The fires shall glare - but I shall cast no shade.

Persons of Aunt Ada's temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, and doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings for ever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves!

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

Darum geht es nicht!" antwortete Eleanor. Dieser Satz machte Franklin Sorge, denn seit der Zeit mit Flora Reed wusste er nur zu gut: ein Streit, bei dem einer dem anderen erklärte, worum es ging, war ausweglos.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Patton was dreading what came after. "I love war and responsibility and excitement…" he wrote his wife, Beatrice, on May 3. "Peace is going to be hell on me.

In Iowa, locals kidnapped a judge and threatened to hang him unless he agreed not to force any more families off their land.

the tensions between settled peoples and transients everywhere...

James watched her walk away and wondered how she had managed to worm her way into his well-guarded heart in only a couple of days. But even more important, how the devil was he going to evict her from the premises?

We are becoming like the mound of earth that rises from the waters of the Moonshell. All around us the white men swirl, taking more and more of the small mound of earth on which we live." Shots

The husband has the right to avenge himself if his wife is unfaithful. The village has known for many moons that White Eagle planned to steal Prairie Flower away from Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf has learned of this and punished his wife.

We tried to hold our family together by ignoring what could break us apart.

You're the pain in the ass. -Ian Fitzgerald

To learn to creatively live with the daimonic or be violently devoured by it. We will decide our own destiny. Let us choose wisely.

Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many different forms, it was essential for the analyst not to give the patient any gratification, because gratification allows the impulse to be discharged rather than be remembered, thought about, and renounced. American

For Jacobson, libido and aggression function as indispensable counterbalances to each other. Libido (evoked in moments of gratification) encourages pulling close, taking in; aggression (evoked in moments of frustration) prompts pushing off, moving out.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.