Quotes About Conflict

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.

I never thought honor would feel like betrayal.

Makenna's "He does" clashed with Cogswhallop's "She does." They looked at each other, and she saw the love in his eyes -- but he saw the truth in hers. "He does," she told the Hierarch firmly.

If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat." 378

The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.

We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.

Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end." Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.

It's all right for you, you and Danton. I have to go and stutter for two hours at the Jacobins and probably be knocked down again by maddened violin makers and trampled by all sorts of tradesmen. Whilst Danton spends his evenings feeling up his new girlfriend and you lie around here in a nice fever, not too high. If you're an instrument of destiny, and anyone would do instead, why don't you take a holiday?

I wonder," he says, "how it can be that, though all these people think they know the king's pleasure, the king finds himself at every turn impeded." At every turn, thwarted: maddened and baffled.

It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.

What I always say is, wars begin in man's time, but they end in God's time.

it's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir, to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in the street and stamped on.

But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.

Would they quarrel so much, if they were indifferent?

But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?" "Why, it would be like the West," Samira said. "There would be harassment. People would be all the time having love affair.

it's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir, to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in the street and stamped on.

I can't divide Camille's loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.' You enter into one and it uses up all the money you've got, and then it breaks you and bankrupts you.

Once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, once you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect.

If what someone wants from you is an admission, it is never in your interest to give it.

How close we hug our enemies! They are our familiars, our other selves.