Quotes About Conflict

Sale de la guerra, la paz; de la paz, la abundancia; de la abundancia, el ocio; del ocio, el vicio; del vicio, la guerra

La guerra es de por vida en los hombres, porque es guerra la vida, y vivir y militar es una misma cosa

Algún puto, cornudo, bujarrón y judío -dijo en altas voces- ordenó tal cosa!

Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth.

The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long as the gap between two thoughts. These are thoughts in polarity, such as separation and unity, conflict and peace, misery and joy, hate and love, etc. Since as human beings we are all capable of experiencing both thoughts, the only skill we need to develop involves mastering the GAP.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

But I killed you," Alyss said. "Did you?" Red turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?

We're family," Alyss said. Redd snorted. "Is that supposed to mean something?" Family," Alyss said again, trying to convince herself more than Redd. Don't talk to me about family! You were never disowned by your parents!" I'd rather have been disowned by them then see them murdered.

Understand that when the beast within you succeeds again in paralyzing into unending incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to try to make its triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of its rectitude. It knows that it alone knows you.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign.

that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up.

What are you like inside? Don't you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or—don't you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That's what I mean," he'd say, "about my black horse and my white horse.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

Como sempre, a guerra proporciona grandes oportunidades aos homens ambiciosos que teriam permanecido na obscuridade em tempos de paz.

The peculiarity of the Battle of Waterloo was its narrow compass, with 140,000 men crammed into three square miles; the front was only four kilometres wide, as against ten at Austerlitz.

I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.

I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.