Quotes About Conflict

One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Right from the beginning, it was clear that Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna had come with the intention of not giving more water to Tamil Nadu.

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

The minute that you go to arbitration, it's 100% confidential, so nobody ever hears about it.

If one of you finds out the cause, that person should communicate right away and apologize for being unskillful so that the other person doesn't continue to suffer.

The roots of discrimination, conflict, and war are not to be found outside us. They are within our own way of thinking and looking at the world. The real enemy is our ignorance, our attachment to views, and our wrong perceptions.

Usually when anger manifests, we want to confront the person we think is the source of our anger. We're more interested in setting that person straight than in taking care of the more urgent matter, which is our own anger. We are like the person whose house is on fire who goes chasing after the arsonist instead of going home to put out the fire.

Children exposed to early violence display altered responses to confrontation and conflict; in essence they are 'hard-wired' to be anxious, distractible, highly aroused, and impulsively aggressive in situations of conflict.

I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them. VOLTAIRE

It was inconceivable now... To think that I once loved this woman Jeannie Billroth, whom I have hated for the last twenty years, and who, also, hates me. People come together and form a friendship, and for years they not only endure this friendship, but allow it to become more and more intense until it finally snaps, and from then on they hate each other for decades, sometimes for the rest of their lives.

She had been busy until two o'clock in the morning, her husband said, serving miners who had already been drunk for several hours and had divided into two hostile groups.

Aber vor Gericht gehen, das kann ich nicht, sage ich. Man müßte da jeden Tag vor Gericht gehen und wegen allem und jedem vor Gericht gehen und schließlich die ganzen Kräfte, die man hat, mit Gerichtsbarkeiten verschwenden, ein Mensch könne sich leicht sein ganzes Leben lang nur in Prozessen erschöpfen, die zu führen er immer Anlaß habe. Im Grunde müßte jeder mit jedem andauernd Prozesse führen, sage ich.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

Nuclear weapons can do it quickly. That makes a difference.

Earlier wars, like World Wars I and II or the Franco-Prussian War, were limited by termination, by an ending that occurred before the period of greatest potential violence, by negotiation that brought the threat of pain and privation to bear but often precluded the massive exercise of civilian violence. With nuclear weapons available, the restraint of violence cannot await the outcome of a contest of military strength; restraint, to occur at all, must occur during war itself.

The observed outcome may be one that everybody prefers, it may be one that nobody prefers, or it may be one that some prefer and others deplore.

People behave sometimes as if they had two selves, … The two are in continual contest for control.

I used to think that all marriages ran the same trajectory. They start with wanting to climb inside the other person and wear her skin as your own. They end with thinking that if the person across from you says another word, you will put a fork in her neck.