Quotes About Conflict

I was wounded in the house of my friends.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.

The sword is brother to the olive wreath.

George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.

They are little to be feared whose tongues are their swords.

Don't trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you.

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed.

The blindness of Winston Churchill turned him into a Zionist dupe and trapped him into triggering WWII, with its millions of victims. It is to be regretted that some right-wingers are following his path by supporting Zionism and pushing for WWIII.

It is true that from time to time Jews suffered from the fury of an exploited peasantry or their competitors. But from time to time the aristocracy suffered the same fate. Thousands of French aristocrats were slaughtered during peasant uprisings or at the Great Terror of 1793. Many Russian aristocrats were killed or expelled during the October Revolution of 1917. Many of them were innocent, for class warfare can be as cruel as any war.

In Jewish eyes, 'anti-Semitism' is any policy which works against a policy of the Jewish leadership.

No one knows what it means to be born and to live on the brink, between two worlds....to love and hate both, to hesitate and waver all one's life. To have two homelands and yet have none. To be everywhere at home and to remain forever a stranger. In short, to be torn on a rack, but as both victim and torturer at once.

ako svaki udari onog ko mu smeta i ko mu je najbliži pri ruci, to onda nema kraja; ode bitka na kraj svijeta.

Nikako ne može da se sabere. Prisje?a se da je htio nekog da bije; htio je nekog da upita što je ovo s njim, ali bilo se naobla?ilo, i kasna no?; i nikog nije bilo, ni koga da pita, ni s kim da se bije.

u naše vreme i najve?i ratovi i najsavršenije pobede retko i nepotpuno rešavaju pitanja zbog kojih se ratovalo i pobedilo, ali zato otvaraju redovno velik broj novih i teških pitanja.

When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be.

I'm in love, he said hoarsely. With someone else. That's why. Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

But people can take your truth and stretch it, twist it, tear it apart, turn it inside out and when you get it back, you are making enemies and when you try and straighten it out, you talk a whole lot more and give the people new ammunition to shoot back at you and then you have made more enemies!

In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

In Coetzee's eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions.

I learned there [in Mostar] that the distance between civilization and savagery is exceedingly small and this has scared me ever since.