Quotes About Conflict

The unrealistic beliefs of diplomats are what soldiers die of,

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Well, that was one thing you had to give [Makann] credit for. He wanted to run out the Gilgameshers. Everybody was in favor of that. Now, Trask could remember something he'd gotten from Harkaman. There had been Hitler, back at the end of the First Century Pre-Atomic; hadn't he gotten into power because everybody was in favor of running out the Christians, or the Moslems, or the Albigensians, or somebody?

If we do not end war — war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, are right

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Freedom means taking sides in a crisis situation, when a society is divided into oppressed and oppressors. In this situation we are not permitted the luxury of being on neither side by making a decision that only involves the self.

Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that if they had their war, their people might refuse to fight it.

Sometimes only evil could defeat another evil. Degrees

Smart bombs do not compensate for dumb kids.

There can be no war to end wars, because all wars begin other wars. There can be no such thing as a war to save democracy, because all wars destroy democracy. There could have been a peace to save what was left of democracy, but the chance of that came and went in 1919—the saddest year in all the martyrdom of man.

never did he adore anyone quite so purely as he adored the Candidate, or hate so fiercely as he hated the Other Candidate. And never afterwards did he tell such a downright thumping lie, nor was there a time ever again when right and wrong seemed to him so simply on this side and on that. A little boy then, and a man now if he had lived; he was killed on July 1st, 1916. When Chips read out his name in Brookfield Chapel that week, his voice broke and he could not go on.

If you have to hurt other people in order to feel powerful, you are an extremely weak individual.

I'm not trying to be someone else, but it seems that my being me is a BIT of a problem.

There are two types of people in this world those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion

Just because I don't fight back, doesn't mean I'm weak. It means I'm mature enough to know that anger won't solve anything

Asking for forgiveness is humiliating and doesn't fix anything. The solution is not to ask for forgiveness, but to avoid the outbursts that make excuses mandatory.

The best reaction to anger is to just be silent and walk away

It hurts too much to love you. But The truth is. It hurts too much not to love you.

Somewhere between love and hate. lies our emotions that are being unchained, and capable of anything.

I think deeply about things and want. I don't hold grudges, I try to be friends with everyone. But I hate it when what I feel is not necessarily, what I think.