Quotes About Conflict

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

There were things violence could solve—you couldn't be a soldier and not believe that—but this wasn't one of them.

That was when he'd fully understood that neither of them had every understood the other. A marriage couldn't survive that sort of epiphany, and their had been over just a few weeks later.

Alwyn's mother could not square her identity as a sexualized woman with that of being a mother

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare.

To kill yourself was to say to your family members, I can no longer live with myself. To vanish was to say, I can no longer live with you.

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare.

Ei surusta ole sanottavaa Se on vihollinen jonka syliin rauhoitut

When you no longer have an enemy you find it in the mirror.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. Heinrich Böll; "The Stories of Heinrich Böll"

Hell hates nothing quite so much as itself.

Everything bad comes from those resounding voices; those resounding voices started the war, and those resounding voices regulate the worst war of all, the war at railway stations. To hell with all resounding voices!

Feelings can even kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Crees que me sentó bien cuando Leo me dijo que se hacía católico? Fue tan doloroso para mí como la muerte de Henriette; no me habría dolido tanto si me hubiese dicho que se hacía comunista. Eso puedo concebirlo, que un joven albergue un falso sueño de justicia social y todo eso. Pero aquello.»

Every death is a murder, every death in war is a murder for which someone is responsible.

Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

It was inevitable that Red China would invade Tibet, and then there would be no place for us two friends of Tibetan independence.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

We live in a world that is ringing with the clangour of weapons. Mankind is arming on all sides, and it will go ill with a state that is unable or unwilling to rely on its own strength.

No matter how much we longed for the destruction of the Nazi regime, we could not remain undisturbed by the bombing raids, and none of us enjoyed them, out of fear for our nearest and dearest. The attacks would fall on towns where thousands of innocent people would lose their lives, people who had as much repulsion for the war as us concentration-camp victims.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

That evening, the king rode through the gates of Reims while crowds cried 'Noël!' in welcome. The cheers were politic, but their meaning was inscrutable; after so many years of conflict it was impossible to distinguish between expressions of relief and fear, between enthusiasm and exhaustion.