Quotes About Conflict

Who we are, how we think, and the manner in which we act, ipsis factis, are considered obnoxious, dangerous, and unpalatable to many fundamentalist Muslims around the globe, who endure manifestations of our power and influence daily, from DVDs in Kabul to text-messaging ads in Yemen.

After September 1939, perhaps one billion of the world's roughly two billion population were soldiers, partisans, and producers engaged in trying to kill people.

saw rearming as reactionary and coming at the expense of achieving social justice.

Victor Davis Hanson

The war no longer pits radicals against conservatives, but often socialists and anarchists against both liberals and conservatives.

When you're in war, you don't have to be perfect to be good, you just have to be 51% better than the enemy if you want a moral edge. We in the West have this Utopian idea that we have to be 99.9% good, and if we're not, then we're no damned good. And the enemy knows that.

The system rather than the man was what would win the war.

He places placidity above all                And refuses to prettify weapons;        If one prettifies weapons,                This is to delight in the killing of other..

Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.

Homo homini monstrum

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

Ninety-three was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century

On the one side blind force, on the other a soul.

Red, for the blood of angry men, black, for the night that will finally end.

Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause.

There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.