Quotes About Conflict

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

What she was saying reminded me of the scene in Gone With the Wind, where the town's most successful madam is trying to make a contribution to the war effort, and the proper slave-owning Confederate ladies refuse it on the grounds that her money is tainted. That always cracks me up. She earns her money with sex, and they earn their money breeding people, and her money's no good.

He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.

To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast. And the noise of the battle grew more strong, hour by hour.

That is what I hate most about this war game. It cuts off communication between peoples. We cannot ask questions and so we cannot get answers.

It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I was a lad and so will it be after I am dead and well I know it.

Now although it is said that lords of war should be subservient in a nation to the civil governors of the people, it is a thing known and proved that the power goes always to the armed man and the man with weapons, and how can a weaponless man, even though he has the right, oppose a man of war in the same region with him, who has soldiers to his command?

A Native American grandfather was speaking to his grandson about violence and cruelty in the world and how it comes about. He said it was as if two wolves were fighting in his heart. One wolf was vengeful and angry, and the other wolf was understanding and kind. The young man asked his grandfather which wolf would win the fight in his heart. And the grandfather answered, "The one that wins will be the one I choose to feed.

Consciously or unconsciously, we carry around concepts of "us" and "them," "right" and "wrong," "worthy" and "unworthy." In this framework, there's not much room for a middle ground; everything is at one pole or another. When groups of people or whole nations get together around these concepts, they can become hugely magnified, which may result in large-scale suffering: discrimination, oppression, war.

think of a time when you were angry, when someone said or did something that you didn't like, a time when you wanted to get even or you wanted to vent. Now, what if you had been able to stop, breathe deeply, and slow the process down? Right on the spot you could connect with natural openness. You could stop, give space, and empower the wolf of patience and courage instead of the wolf of aggression and violence.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!

You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.

The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.