Quotes About Conflict

Nous passons notre temps à oublier, à oublier que nous vivons sur un planète limitée à laquelle nous appliquons un principe illimité, ce qui accélère le processus d'épuisement des ressources et d'accroissement des inégalités structurelles, source de mécontentements, de frustrations et de conflits.

ignorance of isolation breeds unwarranted hostility.

As one veteran of the Dardanelles said, war produces two kinds of muddle: the "Ordinary Military Cock Up" (OMCU) and the "Inextricable Balls Up" (IBU).138 In every respect apart from the final withdrawal, conducted with stealth and speed at the end of the year, Gallipoli was an IBU.

O que de pior acontece a qualquer pessoa é tornar-se inimigo da palavra

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I'm sure you won't claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance.

those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

For it is likely that if a city of good men came to be, there would be a fight over not ruling, just as there is now over ruling; and there it would become manifest that a true ruler really does not naturally consider his own advantage but rather that of the one who is ruled.

Or isn't virtue in tension with wealth, as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclining in opposite directions?

Yet is not the power which injustice exercises of such a nature that wherever she takes up her abode, whether in a city, in an army, in a family, or in any other body, that body is, to begin with, rendered incapable of united action by reason of sedition and distraction; and does it not become its own enemy and at variance with all that opposes it, and with the just? Is not this the case? Yes

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded. That is tolerably clear. And

When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me.

Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth? That, Socrates, will be inevitable. And so we shall go to war, Glaucon. Shall we not? Most certainly, he replied.

cuenta Estesí­coro que, por ignorancia de la verdad, se luchó ante Troya en torno a la apariencia de Helena?

Cuando se suscita en el alma alguna rebelión, la cólera toma siempre las armas en favor de la razón.

La enemistad entre allegados se llama discordia; entre extraños, se llama guerra.

All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth

A gang of lads, morally neglected, and in that respect inferior to the intermediate class, but in good physical training, attack and throw another set, trained neither physically nor morally, and make off with their food and their dainty clothes. What more is called for than a laugh?

siblings between the ages of three and seven clash 3.5 times per hour, on average. Some of those are brief clashes, others longer, but it adds up to ten minutes of every hour spent arguing.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

You don't make peace with your friends.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.