Quotes About Conflict

to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

At the same time he puts him into a state of crisis and makes him weak, because it is so difficult to explain things to someone who is always right, who always wins, who is absolutely sure of himself.

that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.

Kein Mensch bekämpft die Freiheit; er bekämpft höchstens die Freiheit der anderen.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened

Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

And then I would think about the war and about the fact that those who waged it were also children once.

He knew that a civil war is never just one fight, but a tangle of large or small fights bound to one another.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Mi padre construyó este palacio para mí, ¿sabía usted? Dijo que me protegería del mundo. Pero ¿quién nos protege de nosotros mismos?

Az emlékek olykor pusztítóbbak, mint a puskagolyó.

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel. Le guerre negano la memoria, dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome ed un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato.

Una guerra civil nunca es una, sino un amasijo de pequeñas o grandes luchas enquistadas entre sí.

Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone.

Neri grabbed me by my hair and rummaged in my pockets until he found the keys.

Aquí, cuando las personas pierden el juicio, que es a menudo, son capaces de pegarse un tiro en el pie si creen que así dejarán cojo al vecino.

Ah, el ejército, lacra y reducto tribal del gremialismo simiesco.

Nadie sobrevive una guerra civil con un ápice de dignidad del que presumir. Mi

nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.

Esercito, matrimonio, Chiesa e banca: i quattro cavalieri dell'apocalisse.

El miedo es la pólvora y el odio es la mecha