Quotes About Conflict

several of the people we love are people we also fear.

L'Ona cita l'Eclesiastès: «Un temps d'estimar i un temps d'odiar. Un temps de guerra i un temps de pau».

What's a little inferno in your bonnet.

I eto, to je moje unutarnje protuslovlje: mjesto da sam matemati?ar, ja slikam. S tim raskolom u sebi, što može ?ovjek posti?i više od diletantizma?

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict.

they had encountered the enemy, and in the first two days several thousand

Such anger is a destructive emotion. It eats away at whatever peace you have, and in the end it causes nothing but greater pain that you began with

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

People are only mean when they are threatened.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Secrets tear you apart.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. Yes. Do they ever make more sense? No.

Tension of opposites.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too.

Why humans kill each other is beyond my comprehension, but I can testify that you have been doing it since your inception. Only the weapons change.

He asked about the newspaper strike, and true to form, he couldn't understand why both parties didn't simply communicate with each other and solve their problems. I told him not everyone was as smart as he was.

A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way. " So which side wins, I ask? "Which side wins?" He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. "Love wins. Love always wins.

But there still seemed to be no clear answers. Do you take care of others or take care of your inner child? Return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless? Seek success or seek simplicity? Just Say No or Just Do It?

People are only mean when they're threatened

People are only mean when they're threatened

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Somethings hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins.