Quotes About Conflict

when the subject matter is potentially a hot button, it never hurts to be prepared, anticipating the kinds of thoughts and feelings that your partner might experience.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

Look at us, won't you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless

Who knows which takes more courage—to die in battle, or to live in vain? It cuts all of us in two, I suppose." Hamilton

He stepped on the unexploded artillery shell, and it tore him apart.

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.

Everyone in my village liked U2," I said. "Everyone in my country, maybe. Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music. Do you know what? The first week I was in the detention center, U2 were number one here too. That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

You ever wonder why an East Eng girl like me hasn't got much in the way of family? Well here's the reasons Petra. World War 1. World War 2. Falklands War. Gulf War 1. Gulf War 2 and the War on Drugs. You can take your pick because I've lost whole bloody chunks of my family in all of them.

You know what worries me about the enemy? It's the violence. It is almost as if he thinks he can solve every problem this way.

We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own." Her

We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.

hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn

Sometimes I wish I could have religion their way. You know, no responsibilities in life but to cut down people who don't think the way you do.

Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!

Taking on someone else's monsters will kill you." He

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

Jackson raised his cane to strike him as he was tackled to the ground.* "The old General sprung at him like a tiger," Tyler recalled, "and manifested as much fearlessness as one could possibly have done.

It's easy to find surface goals and stakes (to save the word, to stop the bad guy, save a life), but you often find that those aren't deep enough to help you create the plot. You run out of problems for the protagonist to tackle pretty quickly. The trick is to find the personal stakes and then work from there to determine the goals. People act when they want to (something to gain) or have to (something to lose).   Personal

Her stillness defeated his storm.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.