Quotes About Conflict

On the fourth anniversary of the war, peace seemed further away than ever. The military conspirators, and Billing, their pawn, had achieved their aims.

The animal at bay was himself.

It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.

Fish cannot carry guns.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.

It goes on, he thought. The internecine hate. Perhaps the seeds are there, in that. They will eat one another at last, and leave the rest of us here and there in the world, still alive. Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans.

Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart.

It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street brawls.

I'll tell you what fouls us up, Roy; it's our goddamn superior intelligence!" She glared at her husband, her small, high breasts rising and falling rapidly. "We're so smart ––Roy, you're doing it right now; goddamn you, you're doing it now !

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

I hope I never get in a fix like that, Taubman said. Hating someone I once loved.

After all, they had barely managed to win the war, and at once they had gone off to conquer the solar system, while at home they had passed edicts which . . . well, at least the idea was good.

But before we could continue the war, it was necessary to analyze it to determine what its purpose was. We did this, and we found that it had no purpose, except, perhaps, in terms of human needs. Even this was questionable.

You know the old brownshirt term for people who spin philosophy? Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street brawls.

Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back. Why not? Why shouldn't it?

No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war - perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves.

In addition, no one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won.

Human beings had invented war, invented and manufactured the weapons, even invented the players, the fighters, the actors of the war. But they themselves could not venture forth, could not wage it themselves.

Rivalry," General Tedeki said. "One group played against another. By the Leader. So he is never challenged.

Kill the Spartan runners," I said. Furiously, Kirsten lashed at me, "Is that one of your Berkeley educated remarks?

It was a brilliant idea and the only idea that could have worked. Up above, on the ruined, blasted surface of what had once been a living planet, the leady crawled and scurried, and fought Man's war. And undersurface, in the depths of the planet, human beings toiled endlessly to produce the weapons to continue the fight, month by month, year by year.