Quotes About Conflict

How could something so wrong grow out of something that had started out so right?

war had become a mechanical reflex that served as its own excuse for the acts men performed.

Middle paths in tragedy are in notably short supply.

Não é preciso tornar as pessoas fisicamente incapazes de usar violência para acabar com uma guerra

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.

Rising to her feet, she shot the Bird Man a furious glare, and then stormed off toward Savidlin's house. She was glad to be away from Richard, to be away from watching those girls pawing him. Her fingernails dug into her palms, but she didn't notice as she marched past the happy people. The dancers danced, the drummers drummed, the children laughed. People she passed wished her well. She wanted one of them to say something mean so she would have an excuse to hit someone.

It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.

Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?

I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter! - Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor

Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace

Knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how.

Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

Civilization must always defend itself

In a time of peace, you have the luxury of order, but in war you must act. Hesitation is death.

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong.

It wasn't possible to reason with people who were irrational. That was what made irrational people so profoundly dangerous.

that girl has a temper. a very bad temper. and you don't? richard asked. not like hers.

Whoever wins thinks he was in the right. The loser will always believe himself wronged.

There is nothing fair about having to fight in war. The only fair thing would be to live in peace. The purpose of war is singular: to kill.