Quotes About Conflict

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

When a divorce is initiated, regardless of who files with the court, blamers particularly feel threatened. Many cannot handle seeming in any way responsible for the divorce, which triggers their lifelong fears of abandonment and inferiority. Therefore, they split their partner into all bad. It feels like a war between good and evil to blamers, so they create one. Their extreme feelings create their own problems.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic ; a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

every Disney story needs a villain, and mine happened to be a certain dean from the University of Virginia.

I apologize for what I did, but you also need to apologize to me for what you've done." (That's not giving an apology. That's asking for one.)

Michael should have tried. Jana hated him for not being Romeo. She loved him with all her heart and hated him just the same. He should have killed himself over her. "Dammit, Michael, love me!" Jana said out loud. The words flew from her heart. They were the colour of blood. "Love me, love me, love me!

Don't offend the gays and don't inflame the homophobes. These were the twin horns on which the handling of this epidemic would be torn from the first day of the epidemic. Inspired by the best intentions, such arguments paved the road toward the destination good intentions inevitably lead.

A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

Government as part of plan has put both the brothers Jawan (Soldiers) and Kisan (Farmers) against each other to fight amongst themselves in the Farmers protest and media continue to present distorted image to fool public

Hooligans under the attire of security personnel shed tear gas and do lathi charge on the ordinary protesters, but as usual the top farmers leaders escape unhurt.

If Jesus were to ask me, as He did that poor demoniac in the Gospel: "What is your name?" I too would have to reply: "My name is legion, for there are many of us" (Mk 5:9). There are as many of us as there are desires, plans and regrets which we harbor, each one different from and contrary to others which pull us in opposite directions. They literally dis-tract us, drag us apart.

Consider the games that get all the attention lately: shooters,* fighting games,* and war games. They are not subtle about their love of power. The gap between these games and cops and robbers is small as far as the players are

Hatred is self and other destructive

All freedoms need to be constricted, otherwise the result is infinite conflict and the triumph of the fittest.

Israelis and Palestinians need to create spaces of living together to replace places where they die together.

Like Old Cato I say time and again: The occupation has to stop, the sooner the better.

Occupation qua occupation is morally repugnant.

Peace is a precious commodity. Like any other precious commodity it is expensive. Those who wish peace should be willing to pay and sacrifice for it.

The main thing that violence successfully does is to breed more violence.

Some leaders find it easier to make war than to make peace.

The old saying "All is fair in love and war" might be true for love but it is patently untrue for war.

The truth about wars:- picture this! those who initiate wars are never the ones dying in it. What a waste. The devil never takes a day off. Why fight over something no one wins?