Quotes About Conflict

You did hurt me. And I hurt you. It's a popular pastime here.

What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We'd all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would have blasted us all to bits and that would be that." "We didn't evolve from neanderthals," said Bean. "Well, it's a good thing we have that little fact squared away," said Petra.

They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna." "When did you read Pollyanna?" "It was a book?

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them—

You don't represent all humankind. You're about to fight a war with other humans. So how can you say that our wars are evil and your wars are good?' Surely Pizarro, for all his shortcomings, had an easier time of it with Atahualpa

So? Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

In our wars with the west," said Lankowski, "we learned to bury everything that we did not want blown up. Individually-targeted bombs were first tested on Arabs, did you know that? The archives are full of pictures of exploding Arabs.

The war on apathy moved much slower than real wars fought on the ground.

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.

but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

War gets invented every time there's somebody so hungry for domination that he can't leave peaceful nations alone.

True believers in a cause often behaved in self-defeating ways because they expected other people to see the rightness of their cause if they just stated it clearly enough. As a result, they tipped their hand in every game and couldn't understand why everyone ganged up against them.

That's what it means to be married. You fight all the time, but you never fight about what you think you're fighting about.

It's what I'm most afraid of. That I really am a monster. I don't want to be a killer but I just can't help it.

Je n'ai pas un amour particulier pour l' ouvrier idéalisé tel que se le représente l'esprit bourgeois du communiste, mais quand je vois un véritable ouvrier en chair et en os en conflit avec son ennemi naturel, l'agent de police, je n'ai pas besoin de me demander de quel coté je suis.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.