Quotes About Conflict

Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light.

Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment.

Creation demands destruction. Survival demands that something else fails to survive. No existence was truly benign.

War needs no gods, only mortal contestants, two enemies and whatever reasons they invent in order to justify killing each other.

Serious people never stopped waging their war on joy and pleasure, and they were both relentless and tireless.

KierowaÅ'a siÄ™ wówczas instynktem, a jej instynkt nie miaÅ' nic wspólnego z altruizmem. Na wojnie altruiÅ›ci nie ?yli dÅ'ugo.

Men. It's all about saving face. Every argument, every duel, every battle, every war. You would level a world to keep from being made to look a fool. And so you shall.

Iskaral Pust's warbling battle cry was somewhat strangled as he leaned forward, perched high in the stirrups, hands reaching like a raptor's talons, and the mule reluctantly stumped forward. Kruppe watched this agonizingly slow charge. He sighed. 'Really now. It comes to this? So be it.' And he kicked his war-mule into motion. The beasts closed, step by step. By step.

We are not born innocent, simply unmeasured...Until the outside is inflicted on the inside, then the brutal war begins. We are not born to compassion either - large wide eyes and sweet demeanor notwithstanding.

The councilman staggered to one side, his sword clanging on the stones as he clutched at the gushing wound in his neck.

He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.

Two sets of memory warred in the woman, and the war was getting worse.

Maybe it all needs tearing apart, every one of those lies. And maybe brutality is what'll make us all equal. Still

The notion of freedom could make even peace and order seem oppressive, generate the suspicion of some hidden purpose, some vast deceit, some unspecified crime being perpetrated beyond human ken. That was a generous way of looking at it; the alternative was to acknowledge that humans were intrinsically conflicted, cursed with acquisitive addictions of the spirit.

It is the horror of war that, with each newly arrived generation, the nightmare is reprised by innocents.

There would always be, he now understood, those for whom violence was righteous. Sudden

And there was another truth, one that seemed on the surface to contradict the first one. The gentler and kinder the god, the more harsh and cruel its worshippers, for they hold to their conviction with taut certainty, febrile in its extremity, and so cannot abide dissenters. They will kill, they will torture, in that god's name. And see in themselves no conflict, no matter how bloodstained their hands.

these voices give music to war…

That's the thing with Just Wars - they never end and never will because Justice is a weak god with too many names.

After all, war knows no other language. In war we invite our own destruction. In war we punish our children with a broken legacy of blood.

Balance has an eternal enemy, and its name is ambition.

War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one.

In proclamation, one defines his enemy for his enemy".

Rallick followed this by driving his other knife into Orr's chest.