Quotes About Conflict

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

It seemed to me that a great many fences had been put up all over the world, in the long course of history, that were not necessary. Fences round nations, fences round property. They were supposed to be symbols of security, but they were cheating symbols. They had a precisely opposite effect from that which was intended. They did not prevent crime, they incited it; they led not to peace but to war. A world without fences would be a better world.

He was going to rip Plott apart, piece by piece.

Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children. She understood by now misunderstandings were to be expected- she had had several with teachers - and often children and grown-ups did not agree, but things somehow worked out. For a grown-up to actually dislike a child and try to shame her, she was sure had to be wrong, very, very wrong.

sort of wail that leads to fighting with fangs and claws.

She felt all churned up inside, as if she didn't know whether to cry or burst out of the house shouting, My mother and father had a fight!

Beezus and Ramona defended their possessions from Willa Jean. This is what - called playing with Willa Jean.

The abusive partner continually denies any responsibility for problems.

father pointed out. "Now run along. I have studying to do." Ramona thought this answer over and decided that since her parents agreed, they must be right. Well, Mrs. Whaley could just go jump in a lake, even though

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground.

I somberly reflected that the history of the Highlands is five hundred years of cruelty and bloodshed followed by two hundred years of way too much bagpipe music.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.

I can tell you at once that nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering, and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set.

Kriegsgefangenenentschädigungsgesetz (a law pertaining to war reparations)

stripped to the waist; their two fingers jabbing the air; the vicious expressions on their faces as they hurled back the objects that had been thrown at them. Italians behaving like hooligans?

Sometimes the "them" strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.

His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

I have stood down sadistic drill sergeants, cruel Iraqi interrogators, partisan lawmakers, and the Washington press corps, but my daughter can punch my buttons like no one else.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport.