Quotes About Conflict

If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow.

I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat. "Ow!" he screamed. Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me." "Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson." He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely." "Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.

I am a pacifist, danm it! And now I'm bleeding. What is wrong with you, you sick sicko?

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

if you're not guilty how come you're bleeding?

He was recovering his normal self amazingly under the inspiring stimulus of conflict.

if you become angry over little things, the big issues are never even addressed. As

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

HATE FOR HATE — AND RUTH FOR RUTH, EYE FOR EYE — AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH, SCORN FOR SCORN — AND SMILE FOR SMILE, LOVE FOR LOVE — AND GUILE FOR GUILE, WAR FOR WAR, — AND WOE FOR WOE, BLOOD FOR BLOOD — AND BLOW FOR BLOW.

The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance, even as it was the heritage of previous generations.

He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog -- a Christian dog.

If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law.

Behind all Kings and Presidents all Government and Law, Are army-corps and cannoneers to hold the world in awe And sword-strong races own the earth and ride the Conqueror's Car And Liberty has ne'er been won, Except by deeds of war.

For strife and struggle Man is born; But sheep and lambs Are always shorn.

One of the things I believe is that as long as Raja and I are translating, her people and mine may have something to do besides going to war for embarrassing reasons.

Umar Hayat's father, Malik Tiwana, provided soldiers to the British for the recapture of Delhi and for combat against the Rani of Jhansi.

the British adroitly played Indians against fellow-Indians. Obligingly, Indians betrayed one another.

As the Punjabis were thrown into a collision course, the departing British more or less abdicated responsibility. Returning home at the earliest became the dominant desire of most British soldiers, policemen and civilians.

Sikhs in the raiding party 'shouted with delight' when Hodson murdered the princes.

Bloodlust found free play in recaptured Delhi. Wilson ordered that anyone found with a weapon should be killed, not taken prisoner. In the event, the empty-handed too were slain.