Quotes About Conflict

It's called "the five to one rule." In bad relationships, in fact in reliably doomed relationships, there are always two or more insults for every six interactions the couples have.

Things are screaming inside me and my eyes feel hot.

Hitler takes his own life.

On August 11, 1520, Magellan carried out the sentence he had proclaimed for his nemesis, Juan de Cartagena

enabled Cartagena to step in at any moment and prevent Magellan from enriching himself

As the two struggled, Quesada's guard took Hernández hostage, and suddenly the ship was without officers

crew, without anyone to give them orders and fearing for their lives, gave up their arms to the mutineers.

but at the same time he turned a blind eye to the scandals and mutinies surrounding Magellan

Elcano, the Basque mariner, took command and immediately ordered the imprisonment of two Portuguese

They made their weapons gleam, and fought a constant, losing battle against protecting their food supply from vermin.

Every term of opprobrium that Álvares hurled at Magellan strengthened

Members of the Casa failed to see how Magellan could avoid trespassing on Portuguese interests by sailing west until he reached the East.

The gray water churned angrily where competing tides vied with one another

Why would the queen greet Winter, a mutineer, with open arms?

inhabitants burst forth upon them, and slue them every man with clubbes

mass execution appeared to be in the making, but the expedition could not continue without

they were ready for battle. But they were not prepared to be ignored.

Magellan ordered a detail to draw and quarter Quesada's body.

King Manuel ordered the harassment of Magellan's relatives who remained in their homeland.

More troubling, the Indians practiced cannibalism and human sacrifice in the course of their battles

and when they fight they do so very cruelly, and that side which is lord of the battlefield

bury their own, but the enemy dead they cut up and eat. Those whom they capture they take home as slaves

In the Philippines, Magellan blundered into a confrontation with a combative local chieftain, Lapu Lapu.

Columbus and Fonseca despised one another and fought bitterly.