Quotes About Conflict

He went ballistic and started chasing me all over the house until I locked myself in the bathroom and Mom told him to calm down or she was going to call the police back herself.

Monday morning and that she'd taken off with the baby in retaliation. "Oh, and he said she's off her meds.

The minute Bigs hired you, I knew you'd make trouble." "I'm a detective," I replied. "Trouble is my business.

You fucked-up hunk.

Trouble is brewing in Wind River. The Irish and Chinese are up in arms, and the friendly Shoshone stand accused of stealing cattle. Marshal Cole Tyler sets out to track down the saboteurs-lighting a fuse that will set off a bloody massacre.

I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal... in league with the devil himself.

I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.

In other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we're trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and the level of nations.

In the face of this deficit, we humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known: by seeking to psychologically steal it from others—an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.

other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we're trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and at the level of nations.

Kiel pulled his arm out of Owen's grasp and stepped forward. Where is she? he shouted, angrier than Owen had ever seen him

This was all such a waste of time, and after that last fight with what was apparently supposed to be a troll, his arm really hurt.

The bombing of the main islands of Japan was now possible, and in the most massive of the raids, a firebombing of Tokyo, more than eighty thousand people died in the huge inferno in a single night.

Know your death stakes! This is going to be crucial in order for you to write your novel from the middle.

Why? Because intercharacter conflict works its magic. What Rose (the writer) did was bring together twelve distinct characters, each with his own background, baggage, and personality, and throw them into what is essentially a great, big argument. Therein lies the real untapped secret of creating conflict: orchestration. That means you cast your characters so they have the potential of conflict with every other character.

But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.

Whoever Fights Monsters

I am not going to lose Vietnam, he said. I am not going to be the President who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went.2 For many Americans then and later the struggle in Vietnam was simply Johnson's War.3

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.

Textbooks in American history stand in sharp contrast to other teaching materials. Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism. "Take a look in your history book, and you'll see why we should be proud" goes an anthem often sung by high school glee clubs. But we need not even look inside.

After Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Ohio Indians at Bushy Run in 1763, he demanded the release of all white captives. Most of them, especially the children, had to be "bound hand and foot" and forcibly returned to white society. Meanwhile, the Native prisoners "went back to their defeated relations with great signs of joy," in the words of the anthropologist Frederick Turner (in Beyond Geography, 245). Turner rightly calls these scenes "infamous and embarrassing.

Textbooks in American history stand in sharp contrast to other teaching materials. Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism.

The Civil War had been about something other than states' rights after all. It began as a war to force or prevent the breakup of the United States.