Quotes About Conflict

I have said it so often: if the West does not stabilize the East, the East will destabilize the West.

You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

Vanhala epäröi hetkisen. Sitten hän sanoi: – Mutta Suomen sotilas vastaa kymmentä ryssää. Khihi. – Mhiin… Kyllä kai. Mutta mites sitten tehdään, kun tulee se yhdestoista?

Mut mikä hitto tuol? Mitä hyö raahaat? Onk hyö tappant Koskelan?

Kerran he joutuivat jättämään haavoittuneen, perääntyessään eräältä kukkulalta. Kun he valtasivat mäen takaisin, löysivät he miehen alusvaatteilleen riisuttuna, pistimen reikä kyljessä. Muuan Kariluodon konepistoolimies ampui siitä hyvästä ohimennen, kainalostaan tähdäten, kolme antautunutta. Kaksi päivää myöhemmin sama mies katkesi keskeltä kranaatin täysosumasta. Kuolema lakkasi olemasta moraalinen kysymys

Otto said: Try to figure out a way to kill us nicely. You can, of course, drop mother into the well, and maybe you could poison me somehow.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

No, even though everyone had one set of hands and feet, there was more than one person inside--there were several, each pulling a different way, tearing you apart until they led you to your grave And yet we think that another's soul is impenetrable--as though we know our own at least a little.

Zora did not mince words in this chapter and nothing seemed to escape her critical eye. Speaking of Christian hypocrisy, for example, she wrote: "Popes and Prelates, Bishops and Elders have halted sermons on peace at the sound of battle and rushed out of their pulpits brandishing swords and screaming for blood in Jesus' name. The pews followed the pulpit in glee. So it is obvious that the Prince of Peace is nothing more than a symbol.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.

La guerra es la fiesta más cruel, pero es siempre un festejo. Hay que adornarse con las mejores galas para danzar con la muerte.

Las armas hablaban lenguajes distintos, pero pronunciaban la misma palabra: ¡muerte, muerte, muerte!

Remember, my boy, I never fight for the pleasure of wielding weapons. War, for me, is simply politics by other means.

Better sixty years of tyranny than a single day of civil strife.

The Shia-Sunni conflict is at once a struggle for the soul of Islam… and a manifestation of the kind of tribal wars of ethnicities and identities… with which humanity has become wearily familiar.

Ultimately, the character of the region [the Middle East] will be decided in the crucible of Shia revival and the Sunni response to it.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

we are the world and the world is us. There is conflict and fear in us, therefore there is conflict and fear in the world. The world is a screen Where we project our pictures. If we change and project love and peace, the world will change. People try to change the world without changing themselves. Only when we change will the world change. When we are as full of love and compassion, loving and compassionate people will come to us and our world will become different.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

Race Some bite from the others A leg an arm or whatever Take it between their teeth Run out as fast as they can Cover it up with earth The others scatter everywhere Sniff look sniff look Dig up the whole earth If they are lucky and find an arm Or leg or whatever It's their turn to bite The game continues at a lively pace As long as there are arms As long as there are legs As long as there is anything

Now I will dance you the war…. The war which you did not prevent.