Quotes About Conflict

Nos conformamos con demasiado poco. Cuando los amigos se entienden bien entre ellos, cuando los amantes se entienden bien entre ellos, cuando las familias se entienden bien entre ellas, entonces nos creemos en armonía. Engaño puro, espejo para alondras. A veces siento que entre dos que se rompen la cara a trompadas hay mucho más entendimiento que entre los que están ahí mirando desde afuera.

Claudia lo miró y desvió los ojos. El tono hosco con que él había hablado le era familiar, era el tono de los hombres irritados por las sutilezas que no podían comprender y, sobre todo, aceptar.

qué cabeza cortar si siempre quedará otra más autoritaria. (Lucas, sus luchas con la hidra)

Qué es la tragedia? Una inmensa, atronadora puteada contra Zeus.

Usted se lo buscó, amigazo. –Y usted está borracho, Horacio.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Will before weapons

Peace is born of hope, when hope is gone there will be social upheavals

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I out on the highway this time of night?' I was miserable, and it all came to me: 'I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. I can't fall in love with this man, but it's just like a ring of fire.

anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

as the revolution was made by human beings, it was burdened with their failings.

The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence.

Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.

No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed.

They could have moderated things a little, don't you think, but they were, like, Fuck that, what are friendships for if not for instigating?

You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.

I already told you it's over, he snaps. What else do you want? A maldito corpse? You women never know how to leave things alone. You never know how to let go.

This is how you treat your mother?" she cried. And if I could of I would have broken the entire length of my life across her face, but instead I screamed back, "And this is how you treat your daughter?

These days I have to ask myself: What made me angrier? That Oscar, the fat loser, quit, or that Oscar, the fat loser, defied me? And I wonder: What hurt him more? That I was never really his friend, or that I pretended to be?

You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.

We hurt each other too well to let it drop

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?