Quotes About Conflict

ho'oponopono (Hawaiian): Solving a problem by talking it out. After an invocation of the gods, the aggrieved parties sit down and discuss the issue until it is set right (pono means righteousness).

Starbucks was under attack, mostly from within.

she picked him up by the neck and throttled him, actually lifting his body off the floor.

It is a grievous blunder to assume that understanding is always sympathetic. Very often we use the phrase "I understand" to mean something kindly, warm, and gracious. But there is an understanding that is hard, cold, minute, and deadly. It is the kind of understanding that one gives to the enemy, or that is derived from an accurate knowledge of another's power to injure. There is an

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

They'll say we're disturbing the peace,but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

Inequality...is not only morally wrong, but practically also a source of problems. Wherever it occurs, poverty is a significant contributor to social disharmony, ill health, suffering, and armed conflict. If we continue along our present path, the situation could become irreparable. This constantly increasing gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' creates suffering for everyone

Cuba coule en flammes au milieu du lac Léman pendant que je descends au fond des choses.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920s and 1930s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

We're at war with nature. If we win, we're lost.

The bodies went back in the doors and bars and the heads in the windows. The cops drove away and Freddy and the guys went back into the Greeks and the street was quiet, just the sound of a tug and an occasional car; and even the blood couldn't be seen from a few feet away.

When, as repeatedly happened, peace was admitted to be war, the Europeans, it has been well said, showed themselves 'ready to fight to the last Indian'.

Nous avons échangé des civilités. Mi-scénario hollywodien, mi-bonne société. Elle a commencé à hurler, puis essayé de me mordre la main.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers." Neville Chamberlain

Outside my window, the British public traded crack, slept with itself for money, and fought drunken battles it couldn't remember in the morning.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. N. CHAMBERLAIN

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.