Quotes About Conflict

Stupid foes were easy to defeat and angry foes even easier. Mix the two together, though, and you're in for a fight.

Stack 'em like cordwood. Victory was a high body-count, defeat a low kill-ratio, war a matter of arithmetic.

The plotting he'd had to do to come to this point had exhausted Kidman's capacity for calculation; his natural, impulsive violence was regaining the upper hand.

The war was still being fought, but this desire to go back did not spring from any patriotic ideas about duty, honor, and sacrifice, the myths with which old men send young men off to get killed or maimed.

Halpin did not want Ruth or Ruben in the courtroom and he demanded they leave. He said they were going to be witnesses and had no right sitting in on the proceedings. The judge told them to leave.

Richard didn't know why he had these uncontrollable desires involving bondage and rape, but they were there, and he had no say over their comings and goings (as with his epileptic attacks). He knew they were wrong—were against the Church—but they, to him, were bigger than the Church, bigger than life itself, and not about to go away.

The Civil War ceased physically in 1865," noted Thomas Beer, a chronicler of the Mauve Decade, which closed out the century, "and its political end may be reasonably expected about the year 3000.

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Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;They took the spear—but left the shield.

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

Another way of looking at it is, you're putting good people in an evil situation to see who or what wins.

I love the hush of those deserted places, those old battlefields, always so breathtaking, as if we, as a species, have decided to fight only in beautiful places.

Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.

Because of all this mixing, ethnographers and historians have lately come to agree that Hutus and Tutsis cannot properly be called distinct ethnic groups. Still

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

the Die-Hards cited the fact that it took five times the number of British troops to suppress the Boer guerillas.

There was a surprising apparent enthusiasm for the war among homosexuals, some of whom went to war in the hope 'that a bullet might put an end to their life which they regard as being a complete failure from their point of view of the present conditions and notions.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Either way God was going to have to choose sides and choose soon: the godless communists or the blaspheming Germans. Who would be God with a choice like that?

Not since murder became the continuation of politics by other means.

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Alf then told John he must choose between going with Mummy or staying with Daddy. If you want to tear a small child in two, there is no better way.