Quotes About Conflict

She was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and cried for vengeance, saying: Father, you owe my husband affront for affront. The father asked: On which cheek did you receive the blow? On the left cheek. The father slapped her right cheek and said: Now you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's.

with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.

Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?

But no sword is simple. Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

All war is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it.

La Tour-Gauvain avait une destinée étrange : un Gauvain l'attaquait, un Gauvain la défendait.

In democratic states, the only governments founded on justice, it sometimes happens that a faction usurps power; then the whole rises up, and the necessary vindication of its right may go so far as armed conflict.

Ricordatevi, signore: la rivoluzione francese ha avuto le sue ragioni. [...] Sì, le brutalità del progresso si chiamano rivoluzioni. Quando sono finite, si riconosce questo: che il genere umano è stato maltrattato, ma ha camminato.

Ce qui est certain, c'est que, d'ordinaire, après les vainqueurs viennent les voleurs. Mais mettons le soldat, surtout le soldat contemporain, hors de cause.

Taurinum obsessor idem et obsessus

As revoluções nascem, não de um acidente, mas da necessidade. Ela existe porque é preciso que ela exista.

An undercurrent of war was rumbling within her.

O silêncio dá sempre um pouco a ideia de que quem cala consente ou de que está entre a espada e a parede.

La guerre : c'est l'humanité contre l'humanité malgré l'humanité.

CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES

Father, you owe my husband affront for affront." The father asked: "Upon which cheek did you receive the blow?" "Upon the left cheek." The father struck the right cheek, and said: "Now you are satisfied. Go and tell your husband that he has struck my daughter, but that I have struck his wife.

I waited for the moment when he would resume his task of blood. The position was a strange one: he had already tried to kill me and failed, to prove that he was white; and now he was going to murder me to show that he was black.

Don't take peace for granted. It can shatter like glass.

When a man resorts to violence, he's scared," Jack said. "That's a good sign.

The truth was, she had never been able to understand how a woman could be capable of passionately adoring her husband while simultaneously despising her children. No, that wasn't right. Mom didn't despise Meredith and Nina. She just didn't care about them.

Love shows us who we want to be. War shows us who we are.

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve

She was angry at him--she knew that, felt it--but as he came toward her, that anger dried up and blew away like dust beneath the longing that mattered so much more.