Quotes About Conflict

Atwater knew — as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud — that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great syncretic bond of US monoculture.

I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

I'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling.

People hate people, not freedom.

Te diré que Dios parece tener un estilo de dirección técnica que a mí no me gusta nada. Yo soy bastante antimuerte. Y Dios da toda la impresión de ser bastante pro-muerte. No sé cómo nos vamos a poner de acuerdo al respecto él y yo, Bubú.

His parents' pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war

When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says; 'I lived that way for years, and I submit to you that's not livin that's a fuckin death-in-life.

So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.

Esta noche y para callarte, Bubú, te diré que tengo que solucionar algunas disputas administrativas con Dios. Te diré que Dios parece tener un estilo de dirección técnica que a mi no me gusta nada. Yo soy bastante antimuerte. Y Dios da toda la impresión de ser bastante promuerte. No sé cómo nos vamos a poner de acuerdo al respecto él y yo, Bubú.

Qué vamos a hacer? - parece que exclamó Keitel- - ¡Hagan la paz, imbéciles! -le replicó Rundsted-. ¿Qué otra cosa pueden hacer?

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away.

When you and your brother are friends, his doings are indifferent to you. When you have quarrelled, all his outgoings and incomings you know, as if you were his spy.

Así son estas guerras: veinte muertos enemigos no compensan una muerte propia, pero la herida de la traición es la más honda, no sólo por el abatimiento que causa sino por la amenaza que proyecta

is a game as ancient as recorded history. Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

William R. Forstchen

John was up beside him and slashed out, the bottle smashing across the side of the man's head, shattering.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men. (Something About a Soldier (1940))

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay? GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No. SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.