Quotes About Conflict

A man was the cause of it. An unarmed man with a weapon.

I loved her fright, which was against me into the air! and the diamond white of her forelock which seemed to smart with thoughts as my heart smarted with life! and she'd toss her head with the pain and paw the air and champ the bit, as if I were Endymion and she, moon-like, hated to love me.

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

Und weil die Soldaten durchaus einsahen, dass ein Bauer ohne Hof nicht überlebensfähig war, hängten sie ihn der Ordnung halber an den nächsten Baum und zogen weiter. Niemand regte sich groß darüber auf.

Einen Augenblick lang fixierte er ihn, als schwanke er zwischen Mord und Kniefall.

Each of our powers seeks its own outlet, each of our needs its own immediate gratification; we have not the subordination of all our powers to reason and of reason to God which would unify all our striving; every one of us is a civil war. At two points principally the disorder is at its worst, the passions and the imagination.

I felt a little like Custer must have felt when he chanced upon Sitting Bull's Sioux.

Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you. [question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

We see God and the devil blaming each other, and cherish the unspeakable belief that both of them are drunk.

At one point, 144 seamstresses were killed in Nantes. Their crime? They had sewn shirts for the rebels…

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have seen war…. I hate war.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

[On certain political opponents:] They are unanimous in their hatred for me—and I welcome their hatred.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

War is young men dying and old men talking

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism—that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.

Forgive your enemies–if you can't get back at them any other way.

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.