Quotes About Conflict

Asi no se puede vivir ¿Vivir? Morir sí Niña. Tu quieres acabar con todo. Eso quiero. Porque no conozco otro medio para que los hombres acaben.

Manchmal, sagt Kleist - irgend etwas an dieser Frau entzieht ihm wie ein Magnet die angreifbarsten Geständnisse -, manchmal ist es mir unerträglich, daß die Natur den Menschen in Mann und Frau aufgespalten hat. Das meinen Sie nicht, Kleist. Sie meinen, daß in Ihnen selbst Mann und Frau einander feindlich gegenüberstehn. Wie auch in mir.

The negative counterpart of those "good" traits has been defensiveness, distrust, competitiveness, and hostility toward the members of other groups, the seeds of the conflicts and wars that landmark the entire history of humanity up to our day.

My main argument is that the Vietnam War shattered the central tenet of American national identity—the broad faith that the United States is a unique force for good in the world,

By 1971, 58 percent of Americans had concluded that the war in Vietnam was not just a mistake, but immoral.

Also zahle ich dem Taxifahrer seinen Fahrpreis und gebe ihm noch ein dickes Trinkgeld, damit er in Zukunft weiß, wer der Feind ist.

troublesome Southerners.

Syria: never the country I called home, but certainly my homeland. - Nour Malas

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you can defend yourself against this. You can't. Just walk away. Don't try to make your case. At the end of the day, you will be judged by your behavior—not your words. Walking away is very powerful.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge

These women are a little afraid of Mrs. Murphy, I can see. Over the course of dinner I notice that she can be snappish and short-tempered, and she likes to be the boss. When one of them expresses an opinion she disagrees with, she looks around at the group and gathers allies for her position. But she is nothing but kind to me.

We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

And though they were called savages, even a prominent English general, Philip Sheridan, had to admit, "We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

When I was seventeen I went to college to escape my father's impotent rage and my mother's infinite capacity for forgiveness.

as a week. She's been spanked with a spatula, slapped across

Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war.

All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our

They were people I knew, neighbors actually, acting like animals. They killed thousands of Tutsis. The machetes they used to cut people were the same as they used to cut crops and cows, they didn't care.

Rape is as much of a weapon of war as the machete, club, or Kalashnikov.

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it. — Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.

you do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me, lied to them

she is never more herself than when she destroys herself.

She said she hated my children—her own children, Looloo-dirl, her own children!