Quotes About Conflict

Life and peace. Victory and vengeance. And never the twain shall meet.

She didn't take away his conflicting emotions, although she could have. She didn't make him not hate her. She left his hate there, right beside the love. She thought it was funny. And it wasn't… it wasn't dislike beside lust, or some trivial pale versions of hate and love. You see, it was hate.

Allí, junto a Akiva, incluso mientras hablaban de guerra, ciudades sitiadas y enemistad duradera, se sentía atraída hacia su inmensidad y calidez, como si fuera al mismo tiempo lugar y persona, y, contra cualquier lógica, exactamente donde se suponía que ella debía estar.

They hated the humans, but they also wanted to be them. They wanted to punish them, and they wanted to be embraced by them. To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child.

Ziri spürt Hoffnung. Eine Hoffnung, die er gut kennt und die er verachtet: die hässliche, schwarze Hoffnung, man könnte dadurch, dass man andere tötet, selbst länger leben.

Feltetted-e valaha magadnak a kérdést, hogy a szörnyek csinálják a háborút, vagy a háború csinálja a szörnyeket?

You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?

They wielded blades called /hreshtek, sharp enough to slice a man off his shadow [...}

Even after all these years, the thought of Isagol the Terrible stirred such a storm in him- of rancor and longing, desire and disgust, violence and even affection- all of it seething and bleeding and writhing, like a pit of rats eating one another alive.

It was Hiss who won by stamping on another's foot, and he spent the meal staring at Poppy and missing his mouth with his spoon.

They had an enemy. They were an enemy. The world was carnage. You either suffered it or inflicted it.

Har du någonsin frågat dig om det är monster som skapar krig eller kriget som skapar monster? (s. 115).

Folk med hemligheter ska inte skaffa sig fiender (s. 75).

pero ¿no era aquello lo que hacían las religiones? Mirarse con desconfianza unas a otras y afirmar: «Mi creencia indemostrable es mejor que tu creencia indemostrable. Chúpate esa».

as if hate were an atavism just waiting to resurface.

Te-ai intrebat vreodata , monstrii dac razboi sau razboiul ii face pe monstri?

Many fists against fewer, perhaps, but the fewer have magic.

Che cosa può fare un soldato quando la pietà è tradimento?

Det var vetskapen, som legat begravd inuti henne , som monster i en grop. Men monstren var döda och kunde inte göra någon illa. Vetskapen, däremot, kunde slita henne i stycken. I alla fall hennes förstånd (s. 241).

is is war that creates a monster or a monster that creates war.

We might be at odds, hate each other, and desire each other's destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.

That was the year Zosma sank to its knees and bled great gouts of men into a war about nothing.

How , with swords clenched in bot hands, could one hope to keep blood from spilling »

Families and neighbors started to avoid, rebuke, or repel each other, just because they didn't share the same political beliefs or choose the same party.