Quotes About Conflict

Consider, for example, the image of a young Palestinian soldier that a reporter I know saw standing guard in the hills of Lebanon. He was fighting to preserve his ancient culture and its identity. He wore sneakers, blue jeans, and a Grateful Dead T-shirt. He carried an Uzi.

We're all human and disagreements come up even between two people who are deeply in love.

It's class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

Really?" Mister Sun said. "You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you're suddenly squeamish about a hammer.

Se mi amaste, oggi vi ammazzereste tutti.

I don't want to kill her. But then I don't want to shit and eat. But in the order to live I have to do it.

What you fight weakens you; what you cooperate with strengthens you.

every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict; for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. . . . What you remember is a part of you. For you must be as God created you. . . . Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace of the remembrance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.

All rights and wrongs of every description represent shoulds of one kind or another. And the shoulds get in your way, particularly when they conflict with another person's need to have his own as well.

80th verse: Imagine a world where weapons are vestiges of the past, displayed in museums to illustrate and warn the populace about an absurdly violent history. You'd see the conflicts on this planet exhibited from the perspective of human being as tiny microbes living on the same body, equally dependent on it and on one another for survival, yet killing each other and destroying their host anyway.

The more you push against it, the more resistance you create.

Someone must risk returning injury with kindness, or hostility will never turn to goodwill.

May 4, 1970—the same day as the horror show at Kent State University in Ohio, where four students were killed

Girls don't fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don't snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they've given up and try to lure someone else.

There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.

One's heart is not always as smart as one's head.

She's got ANTAGONIZE written all over her.

But, Steven!" my mom said, then threw her hands in the air.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from Feminism, the Body, and the Machine)