Quotes About Conflict

Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?

The physical beauty of Venice and the moral ugliness of America were more and more difficult for Julian to reconcile.

America took one step closer to entering the war.

There were three major triggers that led to the end of WWI: (1) The Russian Revolution (2) Americans entering the war in 1917 (3) The failure of Germany's Spring Offensive

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

It's like we're fairweather friends, pals if everything is hunky-dory. Friends are supposed to talk about things, weather the storms. Be friends, come what may. Resolve problems. Not first sign of trouble and ooh, we're not talking to you. It's pathetic. And now I'm mad.

The most damaging legacy of the West has been its power to decide who our enemies are, turning us not only against our own people, like North and South Korea, but turning me against myself.

In 1945, two fumbling mid-ranking American officers who knew nothing about the country used a National Geographic map as reference to arbitrarily cut a border to make North and South Korea, a division that eventually separated millions of families, including my own grandmother from her family.

We were like two negative ions repelling each other. He treated me badly because he hated himself. I treated him badly because I hated myself.

Most feminists view women as a class whose presumed interests are to be given priority and see equality as a matter of convenience: women are as tough and aggressive as men when it comes to fighting wars or fires, but frail and helpless when it comes to domestic violence; as carnal as men when it comes to sexual freedom, but innocent and victimized in any sexual conflict.

Carthago delenda est

Delenda Carthago est.

Id Faciam What I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holds the nail that now is driven into itself, why.

I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.

?d? et am?. Qu?r? id faciam fortasse requ?ris. Nesci?, sed fier? senti? et excrucior.

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I can do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me.

I hate her and i love her. don't ask me why. it's the way i feel, that's all, and it hurts.

I hate and love. you ask, "how can this be?" god knows what wretchedness what loathsome misery

I hate and love. why i do so, perhaps you ask. i know not but I feel it, and i am in torment.

And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?

Who wouldn't be in a state of denial when your next-door neighbor suddenly starts shooting at you, casually and without remorse, like you're some kind of unwanted introduced species.

Jarret interrupted. "Colonel Bruce, you must be aware of the rising difficulty for men like me in the thoroughbred world. You must know that for some who supported the Southern cause, the war is not over. They deplore their reduced circumstances and do not care to see someone like me

I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.