Quotes About Conflict

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase "with the addition of other means" because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

Válka je jen pokra?ování diplomacie jinými prostÃ…â"¢edky.

Je größerer Art die Maßnahmen werden, um so weniger kann man damit überraschen.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Wenn der Gegner unseren Willen erfüllen soll, so müssen wir ihn in eine Lage versetzen, die nachteiliger ist, als das Opfer, welches wir von ihm fordern; die Nachteile dieser Lage dürfen aber natürlich, wenigstens dem Anscheine nach, nicht vorübergehend sein, sonst würde der Gegner den besseren Zeitpunkt abwarten und nicht nachgeben.

Je kleiner das Opfer ist, welches wir von unserem Gegner fordern, um so geringer dürfen wir erwarten, daß seine Anstrengungen sein warden, es uns zu versagen. Je geringer aber diese sind, um so kleiner dürfen auch die unsrigen bleiben.

Dans les deux cas, l'empereur Napoléon attaqua avec son aile droite en cherchant à résister avec l'aile gauche. L'archiduc Charlesdfit exactement la même chose. Mais le premier le fit avec toute sa résolution et toute son énergie, tandis que le second était indécis et s'arrêtait chaque fois à mi-course.

Es ist also nach unserer Einteilung die Taktik die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Streitkräfte im Gefecht, die Strategie die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Gefechte zum Zweck des Krieges.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

They have come up with a bold idea: Our minds, too, are shaped by conflict between our parents' genes.

Wie soll man die neue Zeit ertragen - wenn sie mit nichts als Mord beginnt?

About this unpleasant situation Boltzmann wrote: "I hate this continuous secret battle; I know much better how to integrate than how to intrigue.

L'umorismo va distinto dall'ironia. ?ando si fa dell'ironia si ride degli altri. ?ando si fa dell'umorismo si ride con gli altri. L'ironia ingenera tensioni e confli?i. L'umorismo quando usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto (e se non è usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto non è umorismo) è il solvente per eccellenza per sgonfiare tensioni, risolvere situazioni altrimenti penose, facilitare rapporti e relazioni umane.

It was both a religious and an economic war, for in those early days of global vandalism the sword and the cross went together.

A guerra terminou ontem mas ainda há batalhas dentro no peito que estão reclamando herois

Bernal Díaz del Castillo había sentenciado el destino de nuestro país [España, pero en realidad el mundo]: matarás y matarte han y matarán a quien te matare.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

Antigone by Sophocles.

Knowing how to manage conflict is a vital skill for nurses.

a veces tengo miedo de sentir el dualismo de fuerzas que me impulsan

Si vieras, a veces tengo miedo de sentir el dualismo de fuerzas que me impulsan. Cuando he sido demasiado sublime una temporada, tengo ganas de arañar... De dañar un poco.

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

The new president, just like Lincoln, had convinced himself instead that the Civil War was only about preserving the Union. No more. No less. And therefore, he set about stitching the rebel South back into the fabric of the nation.