Quotes About Conflict

No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn't agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.

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What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide for sake of his kingdom. That's all.

I think—" Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. "I think I hate it when I can't stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think—

shoved him backwards out of her lab, pulling its door closed behind them.

Space and time blurred and the void filled with explosions and shards and narrow misses and voices in the Force: his pilots, laughing and swearing and howling to their deaths. He laughed and swore and howled along with them, the silence unbearable. Kill, kill, and kill again, slaughter the starfighters, slaughter the Tuskens, every loss is the same loss, every pain springs from one source. Save Kothlis, save Coruscant, save Padmé. Save them all.

Too bad evil people sometimes live in peaceful towns

You deal with the bitch, I'll deal with the ditch.

Incredulous, Marcus just looked at him. 'Are you kidding me? You have stormed enemy bunkers with bullets flying all over the damn place.' Marcus should know - he'd been shoulder-to-shoulder with Diesel every time. 'Are you seriously trying to tell me you're scared of women stuff? What the hell, Diesel? Just . . . what the hell?

I wish you'd get one thing straight - I'm not a traitor. I was never on your side. I'm called the enemy.

I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.

When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they've kept quiet for years.

It's hard to send someone to their death," she said, answering his silent question. His expression was hidden behind the visor of his helmet. She didn't need to call on any of her abilities as a Jedi to know what he was thinking: one day she would do the same to men like him. The realization caught her unawares. "You'll get used to it," he said. She doubted it.

They just seemed to define themselves by not being the other faction.

have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

killed in a way I didn't think I ever could. I'm appalled at what I can do. I don't enjoy this." "If you enjoyed it, Jacen, you would not be the one destined to become the Sith Lord." The

of it, a man who did his fair share of killing

War is a vile thing, and it brings out the worst in beings. But it also brings out their best - courage, sacrifice, resourcefulness, tenacity, comradeship, genius, even humor. Would that we could achieve that enlightened state without shedding blood first.

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

Marriages were perplexing animals, always changing, sometimes gentle, sometimes vicious.

There were good guys and bad guys, and to protect one, you did what you had to do to the other.

Will's life was complicated enough right now without Sara putting him on the spot.

That was how it was with abusive parents. They only remembered the good times and you only remembered the bad.