Quotes About Conflict

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter. That's something.

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

To die as a warrior means to have crossed swords and either won or lost without any consideration for winning or losing.

We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.

"Soulmates are those that we've known many lifetimes, have had many karmic contracts with, and with whom we have resolved conflicts. Marriage partners may or may not be soul mates, though they will be a soul contract. With true soul mates, there is no struggle. What's left over is love."

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I'm being instead.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.