Quotes About Conflict

When religion and royalty are destroyed the people will attack the nobles; after the nobles, the rich.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

there is something still more appalling than the ingratitude of daughters who have cast off their old father and wish that he were dead, and that is a rivalry between two sisters.

Las personas generosas son malos comerciantes. David tenía uno de esos caracteres pudorosos y afectivos que se espantan ante una discusión y que ceden en el momento en que el adversario les toca la fibra sensible.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

The social state has freaks which Nature does not allow herself; it is nature plus society. The description of social species would thus be at least double that of animal species, merely in view of the two sexes. Then, among animals the drama is limited; there is scarcely any confusion; they turn and rend each other — that is all. Men, too, rend each other; but their greater or less intelligence makes the struggle far more complicated.

build no barricades when no one attacks you. Don't excite tempests of heart and conscience merely to pacify your conscience and quiet your heart, now ruffled only by a tiny breeze.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

O los Otori consiuen la victoria, o bien serán derrotados definitivamente y desaparecerán. La paz no reinará mientras sian combatiendo en las fronteras.

The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. Keep your sword sheathed as long as you can, but once it is unsheathed, use it without hesitation.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

but sometimes doing the wrong thing was also right.

It was interesting that fury and fear could look so much the same.

Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him?

It was always like that. They never said sorry. They just threw down their still-loaded weapons, ready for next time.

Shut up," said Madeline. "I thought we didn't say 'shut up' in our house." "Fuck off, then," said Madeline.

Their arguments always went like this. The angrier Madeline got, the more freakishly calm Ed became, until he reached a point where he sounded like a hostage negotiator dealing with a lunatic and a ticking bomb. It was infuriating.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think? Divorce. World wars. Legal action. Well, maybe not every legal action.

There was nothing worse than having to feel sorry for people who had wronged you. You don't want lottery wins for your enemies, but you don't want tragedies for them either. Then they got the upper hand. Damn those Delaneys.

But if the girls hadn't got their knickers in a knot, and that might sound sexist but it's not, it's just a fact of life, ask any man, not some new age, artsy-fartsy, I-wear-moisturiser type, I mean a real man, ask a real man, then he'll tell you that women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.