Quotes About Conflict

between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Those in the middle got killed; governments and terrorists survived. At

And secondly, reducing the diversity between people didn't result in harmony within. The narcissism of small differences ensured this.

Pase lo que pase –escribió Flaubert cuando estalló la guerra franco-prusiana–, seguiremos siendo unos estúpidos.» ¿Simple pesimismo jactancioso? ¿O se trata de la necesaria aceleración de las expectativas, cuando aún no se puede pensar, actuar o escribir adecuadamente?

You realise how sympathy and antagonism can coexist.

He remembered, at school, being guided by masters through books and plays in which there was often a Conflict between Love and Duty. In those old stories, innocent but passionate love would run up against the duty owed to family, church, king, state. Some protagonists won, some lost, some did both at the same time; usually, tragedy ensued. No doubt in religious, patriarchal, hierarchical societies, such conflicts continued and still gave themes to writers.

Those who survive, or excel, or overmaster are merely those who are better organised and wave bigger guns; those who are better at killing.

It was always my mother who policed me. My father was milder, and less given to judgement. He preferred to allow things to blow over, to let sleeping dogs lie, not to stir up mud; whereas my mother preferred facing facts and not brushing things under the carpet. My parents' marriage, to my unforgiving nineteen-year-old eye, was a car crash of cliché. Though I would have to admit, as the one making the judgement, that a "car crash of cliché" is itself a cliché.

She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist. I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.

You must decide whether you wish to get on with your children or live at war with them.

For the first time in as long as he can remember, El Capitan is proud of his brother. Damn it, Helmud! Shit! You've been planning to kill me!

All this time, you've been lying to me!

Oh, God," he said softly to himself. "I knew you were trouble.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine - Lady Madelyne.

Judith took a deep breath. Aye, you captured Iain's wife, she said again. But he married your daughter.

Do you deliberately try to provoke me?" He waited for her denial. An apology, too. He didn't get either. "Yes, I do believe I am trying to deliberately provoke you.

Olivia MacKenzie was certain she would have been offered the job if she hadn't punched the boss during the interview.

She started three wars the first week.

Don't you want to know what happened?" Jack asked Alec as he tilted his head toward the man he'd killed. "I figured he didn't get your order right.

I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me.

Okay, I'll ask. How come you're being sued? And how come you're so calm about it?" "I might as well be calm," she said. "Getting all worked up won't do any good.

She started three wars in the first wee.