Quotes About Conflict

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.