Quotes About Conflict

There I sacked the city, killed the men, but as for the wives and plunder, that rich haul we dragged away from the place —

But Hector, stooping, shunn'd the stroke of death. Withdrawing then their weapons, each on each They fell, like lions fierce, or tusked boars, In strength the mightiest of the forest beasts.

For many a Trojan, many a Greek, that day Prone in the dust, and side by side, were laid.

this is no horrible war of Achaians and Trojans, 380  but the Danaäns are beginning to fight even with the immortals.

Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end.

He shook them and called out to the best men of the Argives to meet him in the mêlée face to face.

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7.?ILIÁDOS H

War is men's business; and this war is the business of every man in Ilium, myself above all.

8.?ILIÁDOS ÃŽËœ

How I wish that discord could be banished from the world of gods and men, and with it anger, insidious as trickling honey, anger that makes the wisest man flare up and spreads like smoke through his whole being

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There was no room for fear in Achilles' heart and he sprang at the Trojans with his terrible war-cry.

So the gods pulled alternately on the rope of this violent and evenly balanced battle, to make it taut over the two sides. The rope was indestructible and no one could break it; but it broke many men.

You stupid food! -Athene to Ares

Ares] you shifty hypocrite, don't come whining to me. I hate you more than any other god on Olympus.

Borneo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Bream

Would, by father Zeus, Athene, and Apollo, that not a single man of all the Trojans might be left alive, nor yet of the Argives, but that we two might be alone left to tear aside the mantle that veils the brow of Troy.

The rage of Achilles—sing it now, goddess, sing through me the deadly rage that caused the Achaeans such grief and hurled down to Hades the souls of so many fighters, leaving their naked flesh to be eaten by dogs and carrion birds, as the will of Zeus was accomplished. Begin at the time when bitter words first divided that king of men, Agamemnon, and godlike Achilles.

On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit.

Look, my Lord! see, Heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!" "Heaven nor Hell shall impede my designs," said Manfred, advancing again to seize the Princess.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.