Quotes About Conflict

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

One may take on some qualities of a loved one following her death; the five-year-old identifies with his father's moral code in response to the oedipal frustration of being denied mother as a sexual partner. As long as gratification is available via objects in the real world, identification is irrelevant. When gratification is interrupted, when the object is lost or becomes unavailable because of conflict, the object is internalized to permit fantasy gratification. Identification

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!' 'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?

The answer is the answer to so many of our questions about how best to act in an emotionally tense situation: Withdraw from the conflict.

An enemy can cause you plenty of pain, but no one can hurt you like a friend who has become your enemy.

Pay attention to unresolved conflicts in your life.

People attracted to others' trouble or drama like vultures are drawn to roadkill. People who seem to get up when you're down, always just a little too interested in your latest conflict, slight, or failure.

As Lincoln had predicted would happen under popular sovereignty, civil war now raged on the Kansas prairie—proof indeed that slavery was too volatile ever to be solved as a purely local matter.

In truth, Lincoln tried not to carry personal resentments. "A man has not time to spend half his life in quarrels," he said.

He never published any more cruel and anonymous satire either, for he'd finally learned that it could hurt people and lead to embarrassing and potentially dangerous repercussions. Moreover, he avoided even the threat of fighting to uphold his honor. He deplored violence anyway. When someone insulted him or tried to pick a fight, Lincoln just laughed at the man and walked off.

Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode of conception, it creates a view of the world that is in opposition to, and in conflict with, the actual way the world is.

Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.

The noise was unbelievable … to the point where you could hardly hear the screams of men." Moreton Waitzman, US 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach

Each little field [had] one gate … so each a little battlefield… So the Germans fought in that one, and when they got pushed out they fought in the next one." Patrick Delaforce, Royal Horse Artillery, 11th Armoured Division

Battles and wars are not won unless the infantry is standing on the land that once belonged to the enemy.

If…there is a conflict between structure and strategy, the structure will win.

If company objectives are in conflict with personal ones, only one of them will win. Either the employees leave the company (as regularly happens in the most obvious form of conflict – forced redundancy) or the strategy will be sabotaged, consciously or unconsciously.

Kanalkampfführer' – Channel Battle Leader.