Quotes About Conflict

There is always a moment in warfare when the horrifying reality breaks through the glamour.

Het hoofdthema [van het verhaal van Kaïn En Abel] is het gevecht tussen eigenliefde en de liefde voor God. 'Kaïn' betekende 'bezit'. Kaïn wilde alles voor zichzelf houden en streefde enkel zijn eigenbelang na. 'Abel' betekende 'degene die alles in verband brengt met God'. Deze kwaliteiten waren in elk individu aanwezig en streden voortdurend om de voorrang.

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars were "the crucible in which some of the competing forces from an earlier age were consumed in the fire and others blended and transmuted into new compounds Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the matrix of all that came after."109

Constantly the Qur'an insists upon the importance of mercy and forgiveness, even during armed conflict.

A double standard, albeit unintended, violates our integrity and damages our credibility. In a global society, conflict is rarely the fault of only one party.

Enmity shapes our consciousness and identity.

In fact, the causes of conflict are usually greed, envy, and ambition, but in an effort to sanitize them, these self-serving emotions have often been cloaked in religious rhetoric.

Disputes that were secular in origin, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, have been allowed to fester and become "holy," and once they have been sacralized, positions tend to harden and become resistant to pragmatic solutions.

But aggression, righteous condemnation, and insult only make matters worse. Somehow we have to break the escalating cycle of attack and counterattack.

Remember, possessing feelings of anger isn't wrong. What is wrong is when we allow them to fester and then we choose to fight.

comments, nasty words, flying criticisms, and awful accusations. We can even use silence as a weapon. When we give someone the cold shoulder, we may hold in our words, but we're spewing out our feelings all the same.

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning. PROVERBS 10:12 – 13

Terstan. Who? Who would do such a thing? He will kill him, Abramm. Just

Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another.

Blast the man! How dare he pack his bags and ride away after all the work she'd done! Worse, how dare he do it while looking so damned appealing?

Every time they lost their tempers, storms would gather. That could be a boon in dry weather.

But like all simple things, once you add the human element, all hell breaks loose.

Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.

The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system, between healthy growth and the drive to prove in actuality the perfection of the idealized self.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

What chimps don't seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don't have a theory of mind that accounts for actions driven by beliefs in conflict with reality. And really, who lacking that will ever be able to navigate the human world?

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential—I was torn between the two.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability.