Quotes About Conflict

They come together, like tomorrow, to kill each other they slaughter and maim tens of thousands of men, and the they say their prayers of thanksgiving of having slaughtered so many people (inflating the numbers), and proclaim victory, supposing that the more people slaughtered, the greater the merit How God does look down and listen to them!

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars," he said. "And that would be splendid," said Pierre. Prince Andrew smiled ironically. "Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about. . . ." "Well, why are you going to the war?" asked Pierre. "What for? I don't know. I must. Besides that I am going . . ." He paused. "I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit me!

when things are made awkward by people's excessive compliance and submission, they are soon made unbearable by their excessive demandingness and fault-finding.

With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.

She was in the same state of excitement, when the reasoning powers act quickly, as a man before battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man proves once and for all his mettle, and shows that his past life has not been lived in vain but has been a preparation for these moments.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. - W. B. Yeats

you'll see awful scenes, which shake the soul, you'' see the war, not in correctly, beautifully likable line with music and drums, with raised flags and proudly generals on horses, but in its true image - in blood, sufferings and death.

He had said the very thing that her soul desired but that her reason feared.

Prince Vasili came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an ague.

he saw the fire only as a glow, but forgot on that fire which he should have opened on the enemy.

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

To us it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other either because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

Britain and France had made it a world war after Hitler invaded Poland. When Stalin did the same thing fifteen days later, no one in the Allied chancelleries took the risk of reacting.

In nearly all instances of slave violence against their owners, whites tended to blame the Yankees, as did Emma Holmes, for having aroused "the foulest demoniac passions of the negro, hitherto so peaceful and happy." At least, such explanations preserved whites from what would have otherwise been a most excruciating self-examination.86

I seen our 'Federates go off laughin' an' gay; full of life an' health. Dey was big an' strong, asingin' Dixie an' dey jus knowed dey was agoin' to win. I seen 'em come back skin an' bone, dere eyes all sad an' hollow, an' dere clothes all ragged. Dey was all lookin' sick. De sperrit dey lef' wid jus' been done whupped outten dem.

The existence of dissonance, being psychologically uncomfortable, will motivate the person to try to reduce the dissonance and achieve consonance. When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors

The worker who becomes a policeman in the service of the capitalist state is a bourgeois cop, not a worker.

War is the locomotive of change

I don't get involved in record label politics.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.