Quotes About Conflict

Your heart yearns to believe . . . but your intellect refuses to permit it.

could swing outward to reveal layer upon layer of world maps. This was the place where Roosevelt had charted the course of World War II. Unsettlingly, it was also the room from which Clinton had admitted his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Gabrielle

For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.'

Cuando se produce un choque entre dos culturas, el perdedor es erradicado y el vencedor escribe los libros de historia, libros que cantan las glorias de su causa y denigran al enemigo conquistado.

Tienes enemigos? Bien. ¡Eso significa que has defendido algo!".

El miedo incapacita con mayor rapidez que ningún instrumento de guerra.

Je to konflikt medzi Dionýzom a Apolónom. Odveký boj medzi srdcom a rozumom, a tie chcú máloedy to isté.

Force the enemy to battle on two fronts. When a candidate possessed a piece of negative information about his opponent, he often waited until he had a second piece and went public with both simultaneously. A double-edged attack was always more effective than a single shot, particularly

Es el conflicto entre Apolo y Dioniso, un famoso dilema mitológico. La vieja batalla entre mente y corazón, que rara vez quieren lo mismo.

A lo largo de la historia, las persona más peligrosas siempre habían sido los hombres De Dios...sobre todo cuando sus dioses se veían amenazados

Since the beginning of religious history, our species has been caught in a never-ending cross fire –atheists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, the faithful of all religions– and the only thing that unites us all is our deep longing for peace.

It seems we do a lot of fighting over God. Everyone has a different version of the truth.

Tragically, on account of religious dogma, millions of people believe they already know the answers to these big questions. And because not every religion offers the same answers, entire cultures end up warring over whose answers are correct, and which version of God's story is the One True Story.

A lo largo de la historia, las personas más peligrosas siempre habían sido los hombres de Dios… sobre todo cuando sus dioses se veían amenazados

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it. Anonymous

Socrates, how do I stop my thoughts, my mind - other than by developing a sense of humor? -First you need to understand where your thoughts come from, how they arise in the first place. For example, you have a cold now; Its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, Stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

you may stir up problems around you because you're used to keeping life a little aggravating—because you don't cope well with smooth sailing. As

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

The day is perfect and I hate it for being so.

Stand as I did after throwing the switch, a murderer, a betrayer, but still proud, feet firmly planted on Hyperion's shifting sand, head held high, fist raised against the sky, crying "A plague on both your houses!

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they may be forced to die by them.

The Hegemony and its relationship with the Ousters aren't my worry now. I sincerely wish a plague on both their houses. To the extent that humanity suffers?" "I don't know humanity," said the Consul in an exhausted monotone. "I do know Sol Weintraub. And Rachel. And an injured woman named Brawne Lamia. And Father Paul Duré. And Fedmahn Kassad. And—