Quotes About Conflict

I ache for the day when people make such wise marital choices that they can pray through where to live to make the most significant impact for Christ instead of praying that they could merely be able to exist in the same house without yelling and fighting.

In the societies of the highly industrialized western world, the workplace is the only remaining battlefield where people can "kill" each other without running the risk of being taken to court. —Heinz Leymann, MD

God, Who is actually real, seems distant and illusory. The world, which is actually illusory, seems immediate and real. For reasons that will be described later, your split mind, which split from the house like the prodigal Son, has unconsciously assigned to God the same qualities that your seemingly separated mind itself possesses. Thus God and the messages that seem to come from Him are conflicted.

And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second-----sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

Anger is to marriage what termites and rot are to trying to rebuild a home.

The Southerners, he concluded, "seceded over one thing and fought over one thing, slavery.

That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from them.

Yet history has taught us again and again that a small and rabid group of people can tyrannize a splintered larger group.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

The fiercest fire is hatred.

The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.

There is a very simple reason why Lion El'Jonson did not take part in the final battles of the Horus Heresy. It is beautifully simple, when you consider it. He was waiting.' 'Waiting for what?' Boreas asked quietly. 'He was waiting to see which side won, of course.

When a person requires something unattainable, such as total submission to an unreasonable demand, it is time to stop negotiating, because it's clear the person cannot be satisfied.

The Scriptwriter is the type of person who asks you a question, answers it himself, then walks away angry at what you said.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

I think my life would be easier, she said, if I could just get my selves to agree on something.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

You also killed Despatov," he countered. "You and your damned seamen." It was the crocodile killed Despatov," I pointed out as reasonably as I could, still hoping to find a compromise. "We can hardly be held responsible for the actions of every crocodile on the River Beet-" SILENCE!" Bormann screamed.

Between 1968 and 2015, more than 1.5 million people were killed by shootings—more Americans than in all our wars combined.

To me, and to the participants of at the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along.

Han made a sour face. "I happen to like to shoot first, Rekkon. As opposed to shooting second.

Wars are fought for the gain of the few, over power, women, and commodities. Fortunate are women and those few, that men are such fools.

Brian Evenson