Quotes About Conflict

By the end of the war, virtually all of America's most important German trading partners from the 1920s and 1930s were to have blood under their fingernails.

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth.

What's domesticity? Breakfast in bed? The cuckold going to shoot his wife? Does one inevitably lead to the other? I'm asking because there are no rules anymore and I don't want to end up fucked up. I don't want to destroy anyone through my love. But I don't want to end up chasing intimacy from strangers either.

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?

What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.

It will come to be seen as the persecution of a culture. This makes football akin to the Confederate flag, or Christmas decorations in public spaces, or taxpayer-supported art depicting Jesus in a tank of urine—something that becomes intractable precisely because so many people want to see it eliminated. The game's violence would save it, and it would never go away.

Its easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.

Such language, Babette says. Why don't you just take a dump in my ears!

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

This is passive-aggression in action.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.