Quotes About Conflict

I found it ironic; children and the elderly were meant to be sent away from impending battles, but in our case it was the fittest and brightest who were leaving, those who in the past would have been most expected to remain.

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.

It was the sort of view that might command a slight premium during gentler, more prosperous times, but would be most undesirable in times of conflict, when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War

Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War

These artists of war are active even when their societies are officially at peace, quests for power being unrelenting, and in the absence of open hostilities they can be found either hunting for ever-present enemies within or otherwise divvying up that booty always conveniently proximate to those capable of wanton slaughter, spoils these days often cloaked in purchasing contracts and share-price movements.

She wiped her cheeks with the backs of her hands. "I'm alright, stop fussing. Stop treating me like a child." "I will if you stop acting like one." He smiled. "Do we have ourselves a deal?" He held out his hand as though they would shake on it but she folded her arms and turned her head.

True victory lies in your role in the conflict, not in coming through safely: it consists in the honour of battling bravely not battling through.

La defensa atrae el ataque y la desconfianza la ofensa.

Make tea, not war.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Good controversy should not be a quarrel about assumptions

the unity of a story is always in its plot.

RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.

Inter-denominational violence' is generally based upon the essentially atheistic greed for more land, power, and money.

She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.

She kissed Beckett, and Han was torn between wanting to look away to give them privacy, and wanting to look and see what love was like when you were allowed to have it.

It is well to remember that no two human beings ever lived beneath the same roof without dashes of temperament, periods of hurt, and strain.

When your desires and imagination are in conflict, your imagination invariably gains the day.

Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes of a rapacious civil war.

From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan's mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of rock appear as though the pages are crumpled up, and there is a momentary wish in him to smooth them down. Laser-guided bombs are falling onto the pages in his hands, missiles summoned from the Arabian Sea, from American warships that are as long as the Empire State Building is tall.

A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other races and civilization of the world, who left his own country in the West to set up a home among them in the East, and was ruined as a result, paying dearly for his foolish mistake. His life smashed to pieces by the barbarians surrounding him.

At the gun shop, AK-47s were stacked six high on the shelves … The day after the West invaded Afghanistan, a 'piety discount' was introduced for those who wished to buy the weapon to go the jihad.

We are warriors of Allah." "You are thugs with Korans.