Quotes About Conflict

Mrs. Richardson remained annoyed with

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the care?

She tried to reconcile what Lexie was saying with the Lexie she knew. Lexie wanted an abortion? Baby-crazy Lexie, quick-to-judge-others Lexie, Lexie who'd been so unforgiving about Bebe's mistakes?

Quarrelling could do more damage to the appearance of a house than a party for fifty people, all drunk.

Maybe she was making a mountain out of her mother.

Polemik zekalar?n sava??ym??. Zekalar birbiriyle sava?maz.

Avrupa Tanzimattan beri ayn? emelin kovalay?c?s?d?r: Türk ayd?n?nda mukaddesi öldürmek. Mukaddesi yani ?slamiyeti.

Sömürgecili?in mezar kaz?c?s? olarak ça??m?z?n iki büyük ideolojisi el ele vermi?tir: milliyetçilik ve sosyalizm.

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist , and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

Io non credo che possa finire. Ora che ho visto cos'è guerra, cos'è guerra civile, so che tutti, se un giorno finisse, dovrebbero chiedersi: - E dei caduti che facciamo? perché sono morti? - Io non saprei cosa rispondere. Non adesso, almeno. Né mi pare che gli altri lo sappiano. Forse lo sanno unicamente i morti, e soltanto per loro la guerra è finita davvero.

Mi piace il contrasto. È solamente nei contrasti che l'uomo si sente più forte, superiore al proprio corpo. Senza contrasti la vita è banale.

Le interessano i libri? - disse Rosetta animandosi. - Legge molto? - Durante la guerra. Non si sapeva cosa fare. Ma non ci riesco mica. Ho sempre l'impressione di mettere il naso negli affari degli altri... Rosetta si divertì e mi guardò. - ...Mi sembra una cosa indecente. Come aprire le lettere degli altri...

Chi ha la pagnotta non si muove. La guerra non doveva finire se non dopo aver distrutto ogni ricordo e ogni speranza. Soltanto per i morti, la guerra è finita davvero.

But how "good" are we, really? If we're so good, why do we inspire such hatred abroad? What have we done to bring so much "blowback" upon ourselves?

Butler used slaveholders' own insistence that slaves were legal property to release slaves from owners' grasps and illustrated how war could create possibilities unavailable in peacetime. The phenomenon of the Civil War contraband camp was born.

Wherever slave owners tried to evacuate themselves and their slaves, the goal was to keep the workers who carried the most capital value and the Yankees away from each other.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion

a central task of democratic politics is to provide the institutions which will permit conflicts to take an 'agonistic' form, where the opponents are not enemies but adversaries among whom exists a conflictual consensus.

Cuando las ideas y los afectos confluyen, las ideas adquieren poder.

The first World War had finally come to a close and it all seemed like springtime. I've learned since that it is in those moments, when one is lulled into hopefulness, that the sword drops onto one's head.

Going to war is like going to law - the only certain outcome is the cost

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

I make war on the living, not on the dead.