Quotes About Conflict

But Strauss was not a student; he was a powerful, thin-skinned, vengeful man easily humiliated. He left the hearing room that day very angry. "I remember clearly," said Gordon Dean, another AEC commissioner, "the terrible look on Lewis' face." Years later, David Lilienthal vividly recalled, "There was a look of hatred there that you don't see very often in a man's face.

Teller would pay dearly for what he had said. Later that summer, on a visit to Los Alamos, Teller spotted an old friend, Bob Christy, in the dining hall. Walking over to greet him with outstretched hand, Teller was stunned when Christy refused to shake hands and abruptly turned his back. Standing close by was a furious Rabi, who said, "I won't shake your hand, either, Edward." Stunned, Teller went back to his hotel room and packed his bags.

Su profesor de ética de la escuela, no obstante, fue John Lovejoy Elliott, quien siempre fue muy crítico ante la participación de Estados Unidos en la guerra.

in the last war, the two nations which we like to think are the most enlightened and humane in the world—Great Britain and the United States—used atomic weapons against an enemy which was essentially defeated.

The Air Force did not want Eisenhower exposed to Oppenheimer's thinking, particularly since his views would support the Army's demand for a bigger share of the atomic budget.

Oppenheimer's defeat was also a defeat for American liberalism.

Wartime compelled some mild-mannered men to contemplate what was once unthinkable

Die Menschen sind nicht geschaffen, friedlich neben anderen Wesen zu existieren.

The Winter Prince was before me, with his noble, knightly bearing and the impossible beauty that is paralytic at close range. And I wanted nothing more than to vanish into his arms, and his embrace, but I saw the look on his face and I remembered then that he was my enemy and that there was only one thing to do. Run.

Never mistake Kindness for Weakness. When it is natural to beat the h*ll out of someone for the wrong they've done to you but you turn the other cheek, that takes strength. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Emotions might lead to chaos sometimes, but can be a beautiful kind of chaos. - The Return, Book 3 of The Wordwick Games by Kailin Gow.

Succeed or die. Either we stop the Apocalypse, or we're caught right in the middle of it.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Sometimes history can be brutal" - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow

I don't know what that thing is, but I know you aren't it. You care too much about the world and the people in it. All that cared about was killing.", Jack Simple to Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

Incredible. Drew, you really are a girl's worst nightmare. I mean, you look great. You have this amazing body and your eyes are such a dreamy blue, but you behave like a total jerk." "I think I liked it better when you were saying how great my eyes are," , Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Oh dear," Lionel says from the front, hefting his rifle, "it seems that we've kicked a hornet's nest here. Do those look like elite troops to anyone else?", FADE by Kailin Gow

You are not the first Heterodyne to be more concerned with destruction than with the continuation of the family.

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

Those who are born to uphold Dharma in this world always have to wage war.

Your soldiers will come to our lands, but your novelists won't. The unmanned drone hovering over Pakistan, controlled by someone in Langley, is an apt metaphor for America's imaginative engagement with my nation.

You think you can compare your disgraceful demands to the terrible decisions I have to make for the good of the company and this family?

Your father doesn't see any of this. Little princeling wants a crown on his head and his hands lily-white. He can't have both. Why do you have to be

In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.

Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. "I have seen young boys burned alive," he said. "I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.