Quotes About Conflict

Spartacism.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901)

Bullets are incompatible with pressurised environments and complex machinery.

Where there are drones, there will always be police. Where there are police, there will always be violence.

small, but growing, spreading like ripples into circles of pleasure and confusion and anger that impinged upon and interfered with each other to form new patterns of emotion as people turned to their neighbors in the cablecar line and pedicab rank to question, to talk, to argue, to console, and to draw together into eddies of opinion, whirlpools of controversy.

Something about him made her watch him, his big hands held out to receive the falling drops, alms of heaven, catching them in his mouth, smiling as they streamed down his face, his chin, his cheeks. Her heart sent her one way. Her feet sent her another

When dragons fight, everyone burns.

Whatever it was in his eyes she had seen, it made her take him home with her. I shouldn't be doing this, she told herself as she spooned her fleech-mush into a bowl and reconstituted it with water in the dispenser. A nonsocialised introversion level 6 winger with Grade 3 narcissistic tendencies doesn't do this.

All separate, independent nation states bristling behind borders one centimeter greater than the surface area of their skins. Never talking. Never ever talking: privacy infringement, caste-breaking, SoulCrime, PainCrime, help! call the Love Police!

The Cortas are the most egocentric, narcissist, arrogant – outright weird – pack of fucks I have ever met,' Marina says. 'And every second I am away from them, it kills me.

But I think there is a deeper lesson, which is that the law allows violence to settle disputes to show that violence never settles anything. Violence comes back again and again, down years and decades and centuries and so many lives.

Every war is a profound sexual revolution.

It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might be the Devourer of Worlds, but in the end he's just a dude. Beat him and the problem goes away. But the real problems aren't like that. You can't solve them by hitting them. The real supervillains. . . . were people in suits who met in rooms and decided things. Destroy one and another would take her place

I'm caught, he thought, between a cushion and a soft place

when the shit was heading fanwards.

Everything you do from waking till sleeping is against somebody's Bible, Cafferty.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France," Truxtun wrote Stoddert. "If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves." The

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.

An argument needs no reason, nor a friendship.

Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up.

gangbanging was pretty much "on-sight." Meaning, if you got caught in the wrong place wearing the wrong color, they'd just shoot you.

Your ego and reality sometimes fight each other. Reality is staring you in the face, but your ego doesn't want to accept it.

The higher the rate of change, the more inter and intra-dis( I) ntegration, and that is expressed in lack of inter and intra-love. Lack of inter-love. What is that? Aggression, hostility toward others.