Quotes About Conflict

Tell me, Leonard,' he said. 'Has it ever occurred to you that one day wars will be fought with brains?' Leonard picked up his coffee cup. 'Oh dear. Won't that be rather messy?' he said.

If you would seek war, prepare for war.'" "I believe, my lord, the saying is 'If you would seek peace, prepare for war,'" Leonard ventured. Vetinari put his head on one side and his lips moved as he repeated the phrase to himself. Finally he said, "No, no. I just don't see that one at all.

It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground, he said, and paused while he considered the sense of this. You know what I mean anyway...

Pray you never face a good man, Vimes thought. He'll kill you with hardly a word.

You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

Whoever said that a soft answer turneth away wroth had never worked in a bar.

Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.

He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty which dismissed all opposition.

How can you be the good guys if you're dropping clever bombs right down people's chimneys? And blowing people up just because they're being bossed around by a loony?

But we might go to war to keep some damn island that's only useful in case we have to go to war, right?

We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love.

how women pay the price when their passions threaten men.

Hell, there are times when I'd like to run away from my family.

Then they'd both watch him get drunk. Family values, that's what he called it, what he threw in Julianne's face whenever she tried to leave him. Family values was a threat, the cudgel he used to keep them forever locked with him in battle.

Maybe I don't really know what love feels like. Because I've been too busy fighting it. Just as I fight everything else that might hurt me.

These things occur between mothers and daughters. Their relationships are more fragile than fathers and sons.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

Hatred cannot be stopped by hatred. Violence should not be responded to with violence. The only way out of violence and conflict is for us to embrace the practice of peace, to think and act with compassion, love, and understanding.

If you have a gun, you can shoot one, two, three, five people; but if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions.

When we say something that nourishes us and uplifts the people around us, we are feeding love and compassion. When we speak and act in a way that causes tension and anger, we are nourishing violence and suffering.

But none of that is possible," he continued, "if my heart is at war. A heart at war needs enemies to justify its warring. It needs enemies and mistreatment more than it wants peace.

We provoke each other to do more of what we say we don't like about the other!