Quotes About Conflict

Old Europa tosses in her dreams. She wants to help but she doesn't want to share or lose what she has.

As in Northern Ireland, children, shoppers, ordinary working men were all suitable targets. Bombs in department stores and pubs would have even more impact in the context of the widely anticipated social breakdown brought on by industrial decline, high unemployment, rising inflation and an energy crisis.

property, fed on each side by nationalistic stupidity. I summoned the Borges observation: two bald men fighting over a comb.

Some people go nowhere, even into disputes, without a soundtrack.

The lecturer took a dim view of our species, of which psychopaths are a constant fraction, a human constant. Armed struggle, just or not, attracts them.

En vecka senare, under måndagsmorgonen då hon skulle åka till nordöstra England, skedde en minimal rörelse längs den äktenskapliga förkastningssprickan, en rörelse som var nästan lika svår att upptäcka som kontinentalförskjutningen.

Arguing with the person you love is its own peculiar torment. The self divides against itself. Love slugs it out with its Freudian opposite. And if death wins and love dies, who gives a damn? You do, which enrages you and makes you more reckless yet. There's intrinsic exhaustion too. Both know, or think they know, that a reconciliation must happen, though it could take days, even weeks.

She had a difficult case beginning in half an hour, a set of complicated marital claims and counterclaims that were set to absorb two weeks of her life. Both parties intended to remain exceedingly rich at the expense of the other. This was not the moment for poetry.

In facing up to the knotty problem so early in the conflict, Marshall began to reveal why he would prove the one really indispensable American military leader of the Second World War.

Indiscriminate firebombing of the urban centers continued and intensified.

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off, but smitten down." The enemy must be met and destroyed in a "decisive battle

forces in Batjan on June 11.61

Shattered Sword

When he saw his wife smashing plates right and left, he shouted, "What! Are you looking for a husband

Man, war isn't our thing!

It was a fury that exploded in the soldiers' faces against Great Britain, which was willing to hang one of them for possessing a knife, but couldn't hear the sound of bombs falling on them in broad daylight.

The settlement was defending itself." "By shooting us and throwing bombs at us even though we're unarmed?

As he looked at her, he saw the martyr's blood pouring forth in a stream between them, a stream that no human being could ford.

they knew they were slaying Peterson by their endurance just as he was slaying them with his cruelty.

The British response to the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising between 1936 and 1939 was devastating. Britain stormed all of Palestine once more, killing more than five thousand Palestinians and wounding more than fifteen thousand others. It exiled and executed the Palestinian leadership. In addition, it organized death squads made up of British soldiers and Zionist forces known as 'special night forces,' which attacked Palestinian villages by night and killed many Palestinians.

Never in my life have I had the thought that I was going out to fight in order to inflict defeat on somebody. Rather, I've always gone out to protect what was rightfully mine.

Did you ever see someone who was killed in the war but who is still alive?

Zionism offered itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, but became the main reason for its continued presence.

I am for compulsory transfer; I do not see anything immoral in it.' David Ben-Gurion to the Jewish Agency Executive, June 19381