Quotes About Conflict

The thrill of the uncanny lies in the piquancy of oxymoron.

Guys who were all Papa Docs and Step-pin' Razors and Whippin' Sticks.

They live in the gap between what's right and what's possible.

Life, and intelligence, do not mix very well.

Maybe if more of our adolescents had been brought up on fairy tales, they would (unconsciously) remain aware of the fact that their conflict is not with the adult world, or society, but really only with their parents. Further, threatening as the parent may seem at some time, it is always the child who wins out in the long

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

Everyone has the seventh-grade story where, you know, they make the field trip and then all the white kids start treating them differently," says Ruben Cordova, a San Antonio art historian. "Davy Crockett's [death], it's sort of like a Chicano version of the Jewish Christ killers. If you're looking at the Alamo as a kind of state religion, this is the original sin. We killed Davy Crockett.

as hard as it may be to comprehend today, there was a moment during the early 1970s when bombings were viewed by many Americans as a semilegitimate means of protest. In the minds of others, they amounted to little more than a public nuisance.

Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.

You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.

What do we mean by spiritual development? Surely, the broadening and deepening of the mind till it regards the world in its true perspective, and the strengthening of the character so that the will is a tempered and unerring weapon in the charge of a man's soul. And this end is to be achieved only by the exercise of the mind upon the largest possible manifold of experience, and by the conflict of character with the alien forces of the world.

There was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.

I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

You're physically incapable of having friends. All you can ever have are enemies and stooges.

You—stink," I ended lamely, so sore I couldn't even try to be clever. "Okay, I stink," he said, walking off, "but someday you'll cut off an arm for one little whiff.

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.

What is the point of your getting angry with another? By doing this you are like one who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink.

Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you.