Quotes About Conflict

But when the synod gathered, the bishop of Tucumán, a friend of the accused, wrenched the documents from the archbishop's hands and burned them in the oven of a bakery. In

A great deal of the friction between Christians and Pharisees was due to the similarity of their views, rather than to their difference.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

When she started crying, all he wanted to do was hit her.

No, you can see it in his eyes. I know he looks white but if you look at him closely you can see some coloured blood. He hates it, that's why he's so fucked up. I mean, imagine being nearly white but not quite. Know what I mean?

War is an admission of failure

Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.

I really don't understand why people go on about how wonderful the truth is. In my experience, all it does is make trouble.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? "That's like saying the cat's cat is a dog.

One of these days I'd really like to win a battle, rather than just stand quiet while they lose it at me. You know, just to be able say I'd done it. But I'm not complaining. I mean, it works.

The more she sticks the knife in, the more I resent it, the less I actually think about what she's been saying. That, of course, presupposes that the object of the exercise from her point of view is to change my mind about what I'm doing, as opposed to beating me to a pulp.

Here they fight with messers. God help them.

I could unleash violence and death on women and children in Mahec, but I could no more hit a woman than fly in the air; because I'm civilised, I suppose.

Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.

Two inconsistent duties sever My mind with cruel shock, As when the current of a river Is split upon a rock.

Furthermore, we exist in a psychologically fragmented state, a state of continuous inner conflicts among the parts of ourselves. We have lost the principle of unity within ourselves. We are not only psychological polytheists, worshipping gods of our own creation, we are "polyselfists," because we have many selves and have not known our essential self.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

He was always very kind and considerate to anybody below him," recalled Harold Cherniss. "But not at all to people who might be considered his intellectual equals. And this, of course, irritated people, made people very angry, and made him enemies." Wendell

Stalin had no "master plan" for Germany, and wished to avoid military conflict with the United States. At the end of World War II, Stalin reduced his army from 11,356,000 in May 1945 to 2,874,000 in June 1947—suggesting that even under Stalin, the Soviet Union had neither the capability nor the intention to launch a war of aggression.

He had come to loathe these Air Force men with their commitment to building more and more bombs for the purpose of killing more and more millions of people. To his mind, they were so dangerous, so morally obtuse, that he almost welcomed them as political enemies. A few weeks later, Finletter and his people told the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that it was an open question "whether [Oppenheimer] was a subversive.

The very least we can conclude is that our twenty-thousandth bomb . . . will not in any deep strategic sense offset their two-thousandth.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Strauss was unfazed by the extraconstitutional nature of things he was doing to undermine Oppenheimer's defense

According to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he was informed of the existence of the bomb at the Potsdam Conference in July, he told Stimson he thought an atomic bombing was unnecessary because "the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.