Quotes About Conflict

fraternité: "Be my brother or I will kill you.

and took up arms again as a Resistance fighter in World War II. He was caught, tortured and executed in 1944.

the men sit around in the square scratching their crotches and dreaming up their next war.

the NATO aircraft that are held to be the worst thing in the world by those who have no idea how bad the world can get.

In the course of the last forty years, the only part of the world that has enjoyed peace is the continent divided between two zones of political civilization both of them armed with atomic bombs. —RAYMOND ARON, LES DERNIÈRES ANNÉES DU SIÈCLE (THE LAST YEARS OF THE CENTURY), P. 68

The only answer to Hitler was a contrary violence.

Well I'm running down the road Tryin' to loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind, Four that wanna own me, Two that wanna stone me, One says she's a friend of mine.

Cornwallis voiced his lament that even if he destroyed all the men in America, he'd still have the women to contend with.

May our Country be always prepared for War, but disposed to Peace

Incompatibility became established between them like a new season of the year.

Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

Sarcasm," he said, "is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you've run out of bullets." Siri

Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.

Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant—fist, mouse—palm, and ant—little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.

quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin

A guerra é mãe e rainha de todas as coisas

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.

War is the father of all and the king of all; it proves some people gods, and some people men; it makes some people slaves and some people free.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.