Quotes About Conflict

All over the planet, conflicts between tradition and modernity are being fought on the terrain of women's bodies.

Do not be scared of the dead,Least they can not drop an ole bomb on your head.

Santo had the right to love them both equally, without feeling the pressure of having one parent's dislike of the other to corrupt his view - a point brought home to them both by a stern grandmother, who had found herself flung into the role of referee between them at a time when their mutual hostility had been running at its highest.

No one ever said that making love had to be a gently-flowing river which slowly became a flood. Sometimes the raging torrent came first. As it did now, as tempers drove it and the desire to fight each other became as compelling as the desire to drown in each other's surging swell.

Teela turned to Severn. I'm having trouble remembering why I haven't strangled her yet. Severn shrugged. I have that problem myself some days. At the moment, though, the only betting pool in the office seems to be on the Sergeant. Ha-ha. Kaylin said with a distinct lack of cheer. And then, because she was a fiefling, What odds? He cuffed the top of her head.

If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn't they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?

War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.

Don't you ever fucking write about me! Andy hollered, and was gone.

The point is: whenever there is a conflict between modern technology and the desires of our primitive ancestors, these primitive desires win each time. That's the Cave Man Principle.

I concluded that, unhappily, I'd been born into a world dominated by a rampaging monster called 'law' that was both all-powerful and all-stupid

cuando se produce un conflicto entre la tecnología moderna y los deseos de nuestros primitivos antepasados, los deseos primitivos siempre ganan. Este es el Principio del Hombre de las Cavernas.

He was staring at my face. His eyes couldn't leave my eyes and his flesh was already dying with the fear inside him. He tried to talk and made only harsh breathing sounds. He raised his hands as if I were something evil and he had to keep me away. I was evil. I was evil for the good. I was evil and he knew it. I was worse than they were, so much worse that they couldn't stand the comparison. I had one, good, efficient, enjoyable way of getting rid of cancerous Commies. I killed them.

When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.

That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.

Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.

When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them. Even if they tell us not to be that way

We also make assumptions about ourselves, and this creates a lot of inner conflict. "I think I am able to do this." You make this assumption, for instance, then you discover you aren't able to do it. You overestimate or underestimate yourself because you haven't taken the time to ask yourself questions and to answer them.

When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts. You make something big out of something so little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

We believe Mom and Dad fight because of us, even if it doesn't have anything to do with us. Little by little we lose our innocence;

That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

we are talking about relationships in hell. We are talking about the mental disease that exists on this planet.

Haces una montaña de un grano de arena porque sientes la necesidad de tener razón y de que los demás estén equivocados.

La vida en este cuerpo físico es muy corta, aun cuando lleguemos a vivir cien años. Cuando descubrí esto, decidí no perder mi tiempo en crear conflictos, en especial con las personas que amo. Quiero disfrutar de ellas, y lo hago amándolas por ser quienes son, no por lo que creen.

For thousands of years people have believed there is a conflict between good and evil in the universe. But this is not true. The real conflict is between truth and what is not truth. The conflict exists in the human mind, not in the rest of nature. Good and evil are the result of that conflict. Believing in truth results in goodness; believing in and defending what is not truth results in evil. Evil is just the result of believing in lies.