Quotes About Conflict

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Even his own wife, Cindy, balked when learning of his actions. "I've heard how he is at work, and I wouldn't want to be around that," she said. "If he treated me that way, or the kids, we wouldn't be married.

A negotiation is an interactive communication process that may take place whenever we want something from someone else or another person wants something from us.

It is a war of religion as much as a war for power.

this is a time when we must all take sides for or against the king.

friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons.

My father, the colonel, is for the king; yours for the Parliament.

he had made such and such a move, then I had such and such a winning combination in mind.' But the 'great game' of chess is primarily psychological, a conflict between one trained intelligence and another, and not a mere collection of small mathematical theorems.

Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

Lucifer. You're my brother, and I love you. But sometimes, You're just a great big bag of dicks.

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.

Men are sheep. Which is why armies and wars are possible. They die victims of their stupid docility.

Here everything is planned for killing. The ground is ready to receive us, the bullets are ready to hit us, the spots where the shells will explode are fixed in time and space, just like the paths of our destiny which will inevitably lead us to them. And yet we want to stay alive and we use all our mental strength to silence the voice of reason. We are well aware that death does not immortalise a human being in the memories of the living, it simply cancels him out.

I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis.

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.

La paix a été aussi mauvaise que la guerre. La paix a tué autant d'hommes que la guerre. La paix es aussi mauvaise… aussi mauvaise…

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

My brain said no. But my heart!

Violence should not always beget more violence.

what greater enemy does one have than oneself?

You realize that, to the boy with the gun, it probably doesn't matter what particular "other" he is looking at. Or maybe he doesn't mistake Sam for Ant.

The one real fight they'd ever had was over David Foster Wallace.

She had resisted returning there [to Los Angeles, the city of her birth] because to return to one's home town felt like surrender.