Quotes About Conflict

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen," said British politician Enoch Powell.

The "great wall of steel," the People's Liberation Army, defends the state against the peasants in Zizhou and all the other peoples of China. But what use is steel when the enemy is an idea? Steel wins the skirmishes, but ultimately it must lose when too many share a thought.

Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.

Dan instantly recognized the angry scratch that stretched from the corner of Ian's eye all the way along the olive skin to his chin. "Have you been messing with Saladin?" "No. Saladin has been messing with me," Ian shot back. "He isn't big on Lucians," Dan explained. "Animals are really good judges of character.

Our common future will be determined by the struggle between the killers and the peacemakers.

The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde.

fighting an endless war and getting nowhere, surrounded by those who found simply being in the war enough to justify their existence. He

In 1812 the U.S. Army consisted of fewer than seven thousand regular troops.

But what is worse than all," observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, "these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other's testicles."31

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

There was no such thing as civilization until individuals ceased carrying arms, and agreed to refer their differences to the courts.

I think a civilization is created out of some kind of sublimation of violence. When the violence gets too sublimated, you get a sick civilization.

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.

Sorrow almost resents love, it is so inflamed.

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.

Every large family has its angel and its demon.

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.

Never fight fire from ego.

Revolutions are not made with rose water.

But cards are war in disguise of a sport...

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.