Quotes About Conflict

The cause of quarrel had disappeared on paper at the same time as the fighting all over Europe began.

But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ***

Para crear las condiciones desfavorables para sí misma, en las que Alemania produjo la guerra, eran, sin embargo, todavía necesarios muchos actos de absoluta imprudencia por parte de sus gobernantes.

A war postponed may be a war prevented. The combinations of States vary as years pass. The Ententes or Alliances of one decade may have lost their savour in the next. Time and peace solve many problems, and men's thoughts move on to new spheres.

Pictures of heroism and triumph only tempt those who know nothing of the sufferings and terrors of war.

this had been a war, not of governments, but of peoples. The whole life-energy of the greatest nations had been poured out in wrath and slaughter.

War is a business of terrible pressures, and persons who take part in it must fail if they are not strong enough to withstand them.

the war in the West resolved itself into two periods of supreme battle, divided from each other by a three-years' siege.

No one expected a renewal of war in the lifetime of the generation that had known its horror and its squalors.

The Polish attitude was, "With the Germans we risk losing our liberty; with the Russians our soul".

I am my own obstacle.

Cierta gente huyendo de otra gente. En cierto país bajo el sol y bajo ciertas nubes.

Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.

sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

Ale z tego niedosz?ego starcia pozostanie mu ju?, a? do ko?ca chyba, rosn?ce prze?wiadczenie, ?e cnota ma szpony i umie mordowa?, ?e ?wiat moralny i duchowy podlega powszechnemu prawu okrucie?stwa.

Truth does not make itself real in an abstract contest of ideas, but in a collision of persons. Being condemned to read a fair amount of books filled only with arguments, I know what truth severed from the person is: a laborious truth. And that is why I turn to you with the plea: Do not allow an idea to grow in you at the price of your personality.

Let mercy keep company with courage. Follow my advice in this: if in battle you win a man's surrender, then unless he has done you such grievance as amounts to heart's sorrow, accept his oath, and let him live.

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

I am at two with nature.

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

It's about Russia.

Inez: You always take the side of the help. That's why Daddy says you're a communist.