Quotes About Conflict

In almost every story, the fiercest battles often take place within.

Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?

We were just so glad to finally have the war over, nobody seemed to care who had won. We didn't understand that peace at any price is a fool's bargain. We welcomed apathy with open arms, invited it over for dinner, offered it keys to the spare bedroom, then silently slept while it sneaked up behind and cut our throats.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within.

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms.

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together—and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war

War had turned out to be far more

Of course I deprecate war," he wrote, "but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

he had dangerous enemies and problematic friends

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Si las mujeres de esta familia no hubieran sido tan estúpidas y los hombres tan ambiciosos, se habrían ahorrado años de dolor.

The Fundamentalist does not think that the ends can be reached by various means, and that his method is better; if he did, the hostility would not be as serious.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

La violence n'est qu'une surcompensation du doute.

The World War was such an irruption which showed, as nothing else could, how thin are the walls which separate a well-ordered world from lurking chaos.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else.

Ethical decision is possible only when one is conscious of the conflict in all its aspects.

In an extraordinary correspondence, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud explored the topic of human violence. Einstein's letter concluded that "man has in him the need to hate and destroy.

As we stand on the tracks, we can avoid the oncoming train only if we are willing to see it and willing to predict that it won't stop. But instead of improving the technologies of prediction, America improves the technologies of conflict:

Though we live in space-age times, we still have stone-age minds. We are competitive and territorial and violent