Quotes About Conflict

After all, it was Hardin who said: 'A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

Don't worry. I'll keep the peace, if I have to start a war to do it.

At least, I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end.

For the first time, the Foundation has been faced, or perhaps, is in the last stages of facing, civil war. Till now, the attacks from without have been adequately beaten off, and inevitably so, according to the strict laws of psycho-history. The attack at present is that of a too-undisciplined outer group of the Foundation against the too-authoritarian central government. The procedure was necessary, the result obvious.

It wasn't the bomb that defeated us, but our own shell shock.

Many times have I longed to broil a diplomat over a slow fire," the Aga Kaga snarled. "Tonight will see it come to pass!" "I've seen it done often at staff meetings," said Retief. "It seems to have no permanent effect.

Atomhajókkal? – Hát mivel? Azt a három kereskedelmi hajót, amelyet az Å' térségükben elvesztettünk, nem légpuskával durrantották le.

there is a tendency to cling to the past—except, of course, as far as weapons of war are concerned.

Devers was morosely savage.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response

Es la risita adquisitiva; es la risita del hombre que acaba de obtener algo que deseaba ardientemente a expensas de algún otro. Relatos de los Viudas Negras (Kindle Location 215). LeLibros. Kindle Edition.

Violence," came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violence is the last refuge—' '– of the incompetent.

Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other.

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

One common aim united Alexander of Macedonia and Hamilcar, Genghis Khan and Charlemagne, Chmielnitzki and Napoleon, Robespierre and Lenin.

El mundo es violento y predatorio, regido por la ley implacable de los más fuertes. La selección de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espíritu. A la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.

So much hatred, so much cruelty . . . I don't understand,' said Victor. His mouth was dry and the ords stuck in his throat. 'We can all turn into savages if we're given a rifle and an order,' said another prisoner who had come over to them.

Esta violencia es el resultado de una guerra perpetua contra los pobres.

Si me quieres escribir, / ya sabes mi paradero: / Tercera Brigada Mixta, / primera línea de fuego».

de la pasión política, nadie escuchaba las voces razonables que llamaban al diálogo o la negociación.

Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life." Her emphatic tone brooked no argument. Her daughter-in-law closed the door silently and went to give her husband the message.

That comrade of yours is too naïve by half. Chile is divided into irreconcilable groups, son. Friends are fighting, families are split down the middle; it's impossible to talk to anyone who doesn't think as you do. I don't see many of my old friends anymore so that we won't fight.

This was to be his most stubborn, persistent memory of the war: that fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy, still smooth-cheeked, filthy with the dirt of battle and dried blood, laid out on a stretcher with his heart exposed to the air.