Quotes About Conflict

People are "the company" and those in charge can and always will hide behind that facade, that "the company must survive," or "for the good of the company," and so on, wrecking or promoting for personal reasons, enmities or hatreds.

I really don't understand them, the capitalists. They delude themselves. We're openly committed to consume them but they give us the means to do it.

Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity's destroying them. Eh?

why swear at him, even to yourself? He hasn't sworn at you. Swearing's for the weak, or for fools. Isn't it?

It hurts and it costs you. It costs you plenty and the attorneys get most, get a good part and they cleverly fan the fire between you for their own goddamn gain.

quarreling avails nothing.

Through bravery you may win a war, and through bravery you may lose. -Polish Proverb

Inbound now at twenty thousand feet, moving swifly toward the island, came a wave of twin-engine Betty bombers and thirty Zeros, fuel burning fast on half-empty tanks.

It was sometimes said that the only difference between Omaha and the North Pole was all the barbed wire.

As Marine Corps aviator Samuel Hynes would observe, "They go to war because it's impossible not to. Because a current is established in society, so swift, flowing toward war, that every young man who steps into it is carried downstream.

The question of morality in warfare is vexing. Is there a moral way to kill someone? Is a bullet preferable to starvation, starvation to incineration? By law or by norm, who is a legitimate target in a war in which one side will not yield?

For the diagnostic categories for which drugs are far and away the first-line form of treatment, such as the 'mood disorders', 'eating disorders', 'psychotic disorders' and 'anxiety disorders', an average of 88% of all DSM-IV panel members had drug company financial ties.

There is no proportion. Pearl Harbor took care of that.

There can be no genial companionship among great egotists who have drunk too much.

Matsura dribbled blood on the table. Ace threw a head shot. Matsura screamed. Gold bridgework flew.

I was terrified because the good guys were really the bad guys.

I got in the car and headed home, wondering if I would ever tell Kay that I didn't have a woman because sex tasted like blood and resin and suture scrub to me.

John Purvis joined his mother and lawyer on the Phil Donahue show.

Men who, in their hearts, really care no more for mankind than See-wise cared for the fish, lift their voices in shouts of a spurious humanity, in order to raise themselves to power, on the shoulders of an excited populace. Bloodshed, domestic violence, impracticable efforts to attain an impossible perfection, and all the evils of a civil conflict are forgotten or blindly attempted, in order to raise themselves in the arms of those they call the people.

No sé que quereís decir con vuestras alusiones a los artes cruentos de la guerra. A otros dejo el honor, si de honor se trata, de tan semejantes ciencias bélicas.

Están en juego nuestras vidas! Cuando los hombres luchan para conservar su propia existencia, hasta la sangre de sus semejantes carece de valor.

Enemies are a given. Friends are not.

Joe asks how long they've been there one of them says fuck off another says a week a third calls him a drunk homeless fuck and tells him to go away. Joe asks how long they will wait the singular answer is as long as it takes and somewhere inside the house five-day-old children sleep under siege because their mother has a nice smile and beautiful hair and can recite lines on camera.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.