Quotes About Conflict

23This is a war, and whoever is not on my side is against me, and whoever does not gather the spoils with me will be forever scattered.

In 1968, an average of 45 Americans died in Vietnam every day.)

More American servicemen were killed in Vietnam in 1968—nearly 17,000—than in any other year of the war.

They would tear the wiltmilt to living pieces until nothing of it remained—and if they happened on a human at the same time … well, it was the way.

Violence was regarded as an acceptable solution to many problems which would never have originated had violence not been in the air in the first place.

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

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The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.

It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

When he did that, I didn't hate him anymore, I really didn't, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful things to the people that who love them: because it's so easy to stop hating someone if you've already started loving them.

Love, love: it was never as pure as you needed it to be. That was the good thing about hate. If you hated someone, really hated him, then you could wish him dead and never once worry that you would change your mind about it.

I was so mad at her, and I didn't know what to say. Apparently, when you're mad at someone and you don't know what to say, you say something you don't mean and you hope you're not made to regret it. "If I go home," I said, "I'm not coming back.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

Christians. They're determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones." The Lady's face hardened. "This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Peter had two short swords strapped on his back, the belts crisscrossing his chest bandito style. A black splash of war paint covered his face, and his golden eyes gleamed out from the paint. He pulled his swords free, clanged them together, and all the Devils lined up on either side of him. (the Child Thief)

If not so tragic, it would be laughable. Both sides os blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see that they were all fighting for the same thing- for the men to leave this island. Insanity!

Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. If it wasn't drugs, then there was always something else.

Santa Claus and all his little presents tend to get in the way of God's message." "As can religion," Santa replied.

If we insist that war is a fight between two independent and politically organized groups, war does not occur at the primitive level.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

One reason Muslims are so angry at the West is because seven-eighths of the Muslim world was occupied and ruled by "Christian" nations until the end of World War II. I

As long as we see any person as an enemy—whether Communist, Muslim or terrorist—then the love of God cannot flow through us to reach them.