Quotes About Conflict

I'll end up believing, like him, that everything is war and every mark a scar. She ran a finger lightly over the blade of a sword temporarily hung on the wall; the line it left on her skin, though distinct, quickly vanished.

and there I was, caught in the crossfire, aware of how loud a house could be in the absence of sound.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means

The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards.

I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.

That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself.

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies.

Mr. Irving, you and I could get along and accomplish some things here together if you didn't maintain this basic attitude of `us against them.'" I shrugged. "I have that attitude because that's exactly the way it is." "It needn't be. If we cooperated more — " "If my aunt had balls, Mr. Grzgorek, she'd be my uncle.

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

The right word at the right time stops wars, cures heartaches, mends bridges, sweeps away barriers. The wrong word is the dropped match that lights a forest fire. 

Wars are remembered when those who were there would rather forget.

It doesn't matter how many bombs we drop on the Middle East, how many children are mutilated and killed, the jihadis like the phoenix will rise from the ashes and the refugees and asylum seekers will keep coming. Once they have seen on their mobile phones the way we live, they will look out across their deserts and wastelands and make the journey west.

Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.

Politics is everywhere. Even in family relationships there is politics.

Too much love is expressed in hatred. Don't let jealousy overpower love.

But there is something stronger than fear. It grows inside you, poisonous and festering, and it tells its name is Pride, but it's a liar. Its name is Hate.

Buscar la verdad es la mayor virtud y es lo que hace que un drama sea interesante. No me interesa contar historias con perfume de rosas en las que todo va bien

War pictures are always fascinating for people; they were for me growing up, even though I'm not nuts about war." "War is the ultimate conflict, and conflict is the basis of drama to begin with.

We have an opponent who wants nothing more than to bring about our demise.

When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty.

A powerful sense of national pride built on a belief in historical humiliation, combined with an inability to distinguish between the nation and its government, goes a long way towards explaining why many in the Chinese diaspora, including Chinese-Australian citizens, remain loyal to the PRC and defend its actions even when they conflict with Australia's values and interests.

Aron's conclusion was an epigram: "Peace impossible, war unlikely.

In 1942 he was saying—saying without crying, and God alone knows how—that the Jews would have to be withdrawn from Europe after the war and go to their new home.