Quotes About Conflict

Two walls have dropped from between us: pride and justice. It no longer matters who was right. The Hippocratic oath has no place here - do no harm is the wrong standard for love. Everyone does harm.

Nowhere in the known world, it seemed to her, could she live as she'd been created: at once a creature of body and of mind. It was a precept so universal as to seem a law of nature: one aspect of a woman's existence must dominate the other. And a woman like Ester must choose, always, between desires: between fealty to her own self, or to the lives she might bring forth and nurture.

Have you ever had to contemplate letting loved ones die at the hand of someone who hates them?

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

I ran out of the apartment in a rage. Mahmud followed me, and we walked home, not speaking. Shortly before we reached the door to the house, he grabbed hold of me. You're my friend, even if you've hurt me, he said. I embraced him and asked his forgiveness.

It's just men making an art out of their wish to beat each other up," she

They'll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades

Lo erróneo puede ser rechazado como falso, pero también superado como incompleto. Lo diferente puede ser combatido como incompatible, pero también aceptado como complementario.

Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

The crazy thing is, Mother, after more than twenty years of this crap, down at the bottom of my heart, where it ought to be the darkest, I think there's still this spark of love for you. It may be pity, I'm not sure, but it hurts enough to be love.

My rich Diana. Fly me to the moon with you. Dance among the stars. Treacle. Romantic hogwash. Derivative. Unworthy. My rich Diana. I hate you, hate you, hate you. Hate you, hate. Do it, he said.

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

War," Pax said, "either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths.

Hands of Mercy and tanks of hell.

En el punto donde esperanza y razón se separan reside el lugar en que la locura se dispara.

We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other.

The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change . . . The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within them drove their behavior.

THE INNOCENT BOY, THE EVIL FATHER, THE ANTS, THE FISH, THE BIRDS

When you're trying to figure out who…you've got to keep in mind the roots of violence.

the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another. I

There's no middle ground in modern movies; you either save a kingdom and marry a princess or you are shot to death by assassins hired by the evil corporation that you are trying to bring to justice in the courtroom of a corrupt judge.

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw. He