Quotes About Conflict

Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.

The celebration of God is simultaneously an act of war.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out. . . . No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

BE KIND EVERY ONE HAVE A FIGHT.

There is one final bad-news punch line to my life. This bad news is complicated, difficult to explain. In a nutshell, it's that I am pretty sure that my dad is planning to kill me. The good news is that he'd be doing this out of his love for me. The bad news is that whatever the wonderfulness of his motives, I'll be dead.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

These women were like her sisters. Even if she wanted desperately to be free of them. Sometimes the strongest prisons were the ones created by the people you loved the most.

I know one thing. If you let your personal hate interfere, you will bury your cause." We

I am frightened, yet I cannot help my mouth from saying these things. It has always been this way with me. My thinking and my mouth have been the matter of many arguments with my mother. He

Overhead, the Amerikano planes buzz by, great birds swooping down with a vengeance. But who is winning? I cannot imagine the Amerikanos will win. How can they? They have lost once before, and how will they resupply themselves when their country is so far away? The Japanese need only jump north and they will be home. How I wish they would both go home.

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

The hand would chastise the head.

A battle for power is a battle for survival, and in such a battle there are no rules of conduct. Power will use whatever means are available to it with which to challenge the warrior.

WARRIORS ARE NEVER AGREEABLE PARTICIPANTS. SHOULD WARRIORS CHOOSE TO INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN SOMETHING IT IS ONLY BECAUSE IT SUITS THEIR STRATEGY TO DO SO.

Whenever we are in the box, we have a need that is met by others' poor behavior. And so our boxes encourage more poor behavior in others, even if that behavior makes our lives more difficult.

Life is very short, and there's no time For fussing and fighting, my friend

He was hurling words at his shrinking wife like clods or bricks and she was not dodging but receiving them like a willing saint, enduring abuse like a terrible balm.

Strike, but hear me.

denn die Deutschen, wenn sich irgendwas auftut, zerfallen immer gleich wieder in zwei Teile.

The compulsion to defend ourselves is always stronger than the desire to conquer.

There are no set forms of high treason in history; whoever provokes one power in the state to conflict with another is certainly a revolutionist, but he may be at the same time a discerning and praiseworthy statesman.