Quotes About Conflict

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

This atrocious child, whom even now she loved.

Well, this wouldn't have happened if you'd have simply listened to me in the first place" are unnecessary.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

They feared him, and because they feared him, they hated him.

Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

on the brink of war and then tumbling into it. The

War's a pleasure—do you hear me?—War's a pleasure compared to what faces us now: trying to build up a peacetime with you in the middle of it.

Asia is the unifying one, while the West is the destructive other.

lo que más ocupa al ser humano es aquello que rechaza

So what if you can see The darkest side of me. No one will ever change this animal I have become. Help me believe It's not the real me. Somebody help me tame this animal I have become.

La posesión del conocimiento, si no va acompañada por una manifestación y una expresión en la acción, es como acaparar metales preciosos: una cosa vana y tonta. El conocimiento, como la riqueza, debe ser usado. La ley del uso es universal, y aquél que la viola sufre por haber entrado en conflicto con las fuerzas naturales." El Kybalión.

The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals — a vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like Wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces.

no, a check, and pushing it at him. He took hold of

If we frame a situation in terms of 'us versus them,' and claim our side is right because we care for the general welfare of society, while theirs is wrong, then our motivation is almost identical to theirs!...We must try to develop compassion for all parties involved in a conflict because each of them wishes to be happy and to avoid problems.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama does Yamantaka self-initiation every day. He has said that when he does, he keeps Geshe Kelsang in his heart. Geshe Kelsang is totally against His Holiness; he demonstrates and criticizes so much, but His Holiness says he keeps him in his heart. He told us this.

You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Train constantly toward the chosen objects: those living together [with you], those hostile toward you, and those unappealing to you.

I am" is but a deception; "I want" is but an appeasement [of ego]; "The other" is but an enemy's word; "I do not want" is a hindrance. 39 "Self and others" are terms of division; "Attachment and aversion" words of conflict; He who makes such distinctions Has become deficient in profound Dharma.

While the Union survived the Civil War, the Constitution did not.