Quotes About Conflict

A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all.

drive the wild Bleekmen from their last

Además, nadie recordaba hoy por qué había estallado la guerrra, ni quién- Si alguien- había ganado.

McFeyffe, Hamilton said, you're going to have to forgive me. Why? Because I'm going to do something fruitless and futile. Because, even though I realize it's useless, I'm going to kick the living Jesus out of you.

An elite group, bred out of aristocratic prior circles to set and maintain the mores of the world, who had in practice drizzled off into nothingness because they could not stand one another.

You know, these great planet-wide and inter-planet-wide wars break out and everyone is supposed to be thinking of the ideologies involved . . . whereas in actuality most people simply want a good, safe night's sleep.

Perhaps at some other time, when there was no war, men might not act this way, hurrying an individual to his death because they were afraid. Everyone was frightened, everyone was willing to sacrifice the individual because of the group fear.

Anyone that's fighting the Police is on our side.

C-bombs destroyed most of Asia and North America back in the Twentieth Century.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

War asks many people to do unreasonable things.

I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

There are two great powers," the man said, "and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Like a wave that has been building it's strength over a thousand miles of ocean, and which makes little stir in the deep water, but which, when it reaches the shallows rears itself high up into the sky, terrifying the shore dwellers, before crashing down on land with irresistible power - so Iorek Byrnison rose up against Iofur, exploding upward from his firm footing on the dry rock and slashing with a ferocious left hand at the exposed jaw of Iofur Raknison.

She was afraid of her father, and she admired him profoundly, and she thought he was stark mad; but who was she to judge?

Streite mit allem, was du willst, aber nicht mit deiner eigenen Natur

la historia de la vida humana ha consistido en una lucha entre la sabiduría y la estupidez.

I wish I'd seen, as I was writing it, that it would be much more effective if he motivation were love; that he does these terrible things out of sheer compassion. He's killing people in order to save their souls....It's much more interesting, because much more realistic, when there's a struggle between different goods.

But Iorek and Iofur were more than just two bears. There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies. Iofur had begun to take them in one direction, and Iorek would take them in another, and in the same moment, one future would close forever as the other began to unfold.