Quotes About Conflict

Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter.

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano

Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.

There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

Presumably, such is the folly of human beings, the prospects of intellectual suicide might not stop them from indulging their hatred

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers.

Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

That was the trouble with the Outside. One teetered forever between unpleasant alternatives.

La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompétence.

He's but a windlet that blows the dust about my ankles. There is another that I flee, and he is a storm that sweeps the worlds aside and throws them plunging at each other.

A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' 

Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but I was right and they were wrong and that made the difference.

Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.

There can be no serious conflicts on Earth, in which one group or another can seize more power than it has for what it thinks is its own good despite the harm to Mankind as a whole, while the Machines rule.

Now tell me, where was the need for violence?

At the slightest stress, human beings seemed to divide themselves into antagonistic groups.

Sólo hay una guerra que puede permitirse el ser humano: la guerra contra su extinción

You're what they call a man of peace, aren't you?" "I suppose I am. At least, I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end.

la política de apaciguamiento

La violencia es el último recurso del incopetente