Quotes About Conflict

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

There is a conflict in Arjuna's heart between his emotionalism and his duty.

How many sepoys were brought by the Musalmans? How many Englishmen are there? Where, except in India, can be had millions of men who will cut the throats of their own fathers and brothers for six rupees? Sixty millions of Musalmans in seven hundred years of Mohammedan rule, and two millions of Christians in one hundred years of Christian rule - what makes it so?

In that dark chamber of my heart, where I confuse being right with being loved....

why, after all this sex, am I still ashamed about sex? Why, when I look at a woman, does the guilt follow so quickly upon the desire that the two have become indistinguishable?

To tell a story, you have to set up your characters, introduce the dramatic premise (what the story is about) and the dramatic situation (the circumstances surrounding the action), create obstacles for your characters to confront and overcome, then resolve the story.