Quotes About Conflict

Corum stood over the corpse of his mother, the gentle Princess Colatalarna. His first blow split the forehead of the leading horse and it fell, dragging the others down with it.

You are not. You believe that sword to be part of your identity but it is not. It is your nemesis. It is the part of you which represents your weakness, not your strength.

Arjavh whom, at that moment, I hated with a terrible hatred. I hated him because I must fight this battle and possibly kill him.

A Holy War! What better than righteous piety to disguise over-reaching greed?

Oh, be silent!" Elric cried. "For a god, you talk too much. Take the swords—and give me back my wife!

Corum stared at the mired hand, now once again his. "It is nothing," he murmured. "I have killed my friend.

There is no Truth but that of Eternal struggle.

One evening, after he'd read a piece about yet another savagery in Bosnia, I saw there were tears in his eyes. 'Don't it ever stop?' he said. 'I can mind Father telling that there'd be no more wars, not after his one. It shames me. It shames all of us. What's the good in reading, if that's all there is to read about?

When people make wars, they make refugees.

As he did so, he held out his other hand in a gesture of friendship and reconciliation, a smile lighting he worn face. 'In an hour, maybe, or two,' he said, 'we will be trying our best again each other to kill. God only knows why we do it, and I think he has maybe forgotten why. Goodbye Welshman. We have shown them, haven't we? We have shown them that any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other. That is all it needs, no?

Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that's fine and beautiful?

Everyone back home in Bamiyan had rifles too. I think just about every man in Afghanistan has a rifle. It

They fight a war and they do not know what it is for. Isn't that crazy. How can one man kill another and not know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language?

I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing. -Deny it,damn you!

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.

In 1942 the Germans sent a spy called Eppler into Cairo before the battle of El Alamein. He used a copy of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca as a code book to send messages back to Rommel on troop movements. Listen, the book became bedside reading with British Intelligence. Even I read it.

As he steps back, away from her into the darkness, she cries out, "How do you live?" And our hero, played by Paul Muni, says, "I steal.

People think a bomb is a mechanical object, a mechanical enemy. But you have to consider that somebody made it.

What had our relationship been? A betrayal of those around us, or the desire of another life?

The scale of the laying of mines in Italy and in North Africa cannot be imagined. At the Kismaayo-Afmadu road junction, 260 mines were found. There were 300 at the Omo River Bridge area. On June 30, 1941, South African sappers laid 2,700 Mark 11 mines in Mersa Matruh in one day. Four months later the British cleared Mersa Matruh of 7,806 mines and placed them elsewhere.

Small gestures were enough for him. One bullet ended the war.

The war is not over everywhere, she was told. The war is over. This war is over. The war here.

Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.

Succinct histories tell us something—that anything peaceful has a troubled past.