Quotes About Conflict

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

La vita è fatta di problemi irrisolti, vittorie ambigue e vaghe sconfitte, con qualche momento di autentica pace.

Pacifism is not a panacea; it asks only that people should relinquish the habit of deliberate imposition of suffering.

Lieutenant Jokai Chuma in I-27's midget was first to reach the Heads and at 8 p.m. crossed the indicator loop undetected by following close behind ferries and other traffic. A few minutes later, however, the midget's propeller became entangled in the torpedo net near the West Gate and she became hopelessly trapped like a fly in a spider web.

Nought remains But vindictiveness here amid the strong, And there amid the weak an impotent rage.

The attack on Syria has begun, they are accusing President Assad of killing his people. And the Yankees want to come in and bomb the people in order to save them. What shameless cynicism. It's a new strategy they've invented, to generate violent armed conflicts and spill blood in a country in order to then bomb it and intervene and take ownership of its natural resources and convert it into a colony.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

Scouts hadden een Franse lelie op de riem en werden overigens geregeerd door Engelsen (vanwege hun stichter Baden-Powell) die hun Engelse ceremonies opdrongen, thee drinken, onze stambroeders in Zuid-Afrika in concentratiekampen achter prikkeldraad laten verhongeren, onze geloofsbroeders in Ierland mitrailleren, fair play mijn kloten.

Independent observers believe that the Pakistan Army killed between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand Bengalis in a nine-month period, whereas Bangladesh puts the figure at three million.

To end its march of folly, Pakistan needs to reassess its core beliefs about a religion-based polity, reconsider the notion of permanent conflict with its larger neighbour, recreate political institutions to reflect its ethnic diversity and rebuild its economy without reliance on the largesse of others. Only then would it be able to reliably get rid of the spectre of failure or fragility and low international standing by all non-military benchmarks.

The United States initially poured money and arms into Pakistan in the hope of building a major fighting force that could assist in defending Asia against communism. Pakistan repeatedly failed to live up to its promises to provide troops for any of the wars the United States fought against communist forces, instead using American weapons in its wars with India.

The constant refrain of Islamizing a Muslim-majority country, coupled with the belief that this nation must always be in conflict with its largest neighbour because of religious differences, is in many ways at the heart of most of Pakistan's current problems.

My wife is in the heroin business and I am not on good terms with her,' Devendra said. Jayshree, who was also upset with her mother's attempts to keep her away from her lover and force her into the drug trade, also decided to stand witness against her. Papamani was finally convicted and put behind bars in 2004. It was ironic that the two people for whom Papamani earned turned against her. While she had so many followers, none of them were in her family.

All -isms end up in schisms.

The mind naturally seeks harmony when presented with two opposing principles.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. Douglas MacArthur

Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

I looked back towards them, to see if they were watching me, and saw her pulling her arm from his grip. Her eyes were closed and her hair was all over the places and her face was screwed up.

Come on Pop' I said as best I could 'don't go back now' I felt rotten, watching him go back like that.

Do you like Mother and Father?" "they're both all right" "they're not Jimmy, and you shouldn't say so. I hate them, and you should hate them." "all right" I said, "I hate them.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

When the Tigress plays, the dragon whips its tail.

Governmental disorder and 'cumulative radicalization' were two sides of the same coin.