Quotes About Conflict

to weakness if you're fighting the wrong issue or the wrong person, or for the wrong reason.

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.

Under standing orders from General Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia enslaved any and all black persons it could seize—in Virginia, Maryland, even Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign. It made no distinctions between those who had escaped during the war, those born free, or those freed before the war under the laws of Southern states. If they were black, the men in gray took them as property.

Marriage had always been something like the swirling rumours of a distant war; now, suddenly, the cannons were at my doorstep.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

There was no doubt that her brother was her mother's child, but time and again Hayako had the impression that she too shared her mother's blood. Not the thick, rich blood that flows peacefully through the veins, but the blood they sucked and licked from the scratches inflicted on each other when they fought tooth and nail — so passionate was their attachment.

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Don't touch my plumtree! Said my friend and saying so... Broke the branch for me

We live in a world of myriad conflicting loyalties. It is not purity, but the nature of the balance we achieve that displays our true character.

The discipline of war was a near neighbor to the abandon of love.

Every war invariably results in terrible tragedies, immense waste and sinful destruction. All wars, no matter how big or small, how nearby or far away, diminish OUR humanity to a barbaric level.

Rather than erupting in fury, he had experienced a moment of weakness, as though he were about to burst into tears. Without hating Yoshimine (whom he considered a reliable friend even now), he had felt his own arms and legs shrinking before a reality that he could do absolutely nothing about. This feeling, he understood in retrospect, arose from the fact that Yoshimine was a landlord while he himself was an insignificant pauper.

The second . . . when a tenant farmer raises his hand against his landlord and master, regardless of the reasons . . . it leads to unpleasant social repercussions.

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.

Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

War is not civilized.

Blow after blow, some bloody, others a resounding shock to muscle and bone, he felt Robert's fervor until, at last, his misbegotten brother tired and all that remained was for Christian to put his weight and height and strength behind him—to move from sword play to sword lust that he might forever end Robert's treachery and depravity.

It was a grave thing to make an enemy of the Wulfriths.' (The Vexing)

Å bli møkkete og havne i kivinger med gutta var vel akkurat slike ting barndommen handlet om.

Great anger is more destructive than the sword

The problem is not that Afghans unite and then cannot be conquered; the problem is that Afghans fragment and then cannot be governed

Every foreign force that comes crashing in thinks it's intervening in a country, but it's actually taking sides in an ongoing contest among Afghans about what this country is.