Quotes About Conflict

It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway. Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will eer know why.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Humanity must perforce prey upon itself, like monsters of the deep," a

It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.

The difference between the two sides of the schism, is that one side puts out fires, and the other starts them.

If everyone fought with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

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How could she live?" he asked. "She betrayed me. She betrayed all of us. How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

I don't know if we have everything necessary to be victorious over cruelty and chaos," I said. She looked up from her typewriter and tilted her hat at me. "What is necessary?" "Cruelty and chaos," I said, and stood up.

The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.

How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." ? Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other

Yes, of course. A matter of principle, was it? I've always said that matters of principle are the very last things that should provoke a man to seeking recourse in the law courts. The same might well be said of the recourse to violence.

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.

bis peccare in bello non licet – in war two blunders aren't permitted.

who draws a sword against a prince must throw away the scabbard'.

Maggie, but he said the money was his. I lent him the jeep to get to the bus station.' 'Thanks for nothing,

When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.

We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.