Quotes About Conflict

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on others, they sacrifice their moral advantage. Organized violence, at bottom, is just another form of oppression.

Addams's] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter Cordelia in Shakespeare's play: an old set of values, predicated on individualism and paternalism, had run up against a new set of values, predicated on mutuality and self-determination.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

I wonder what they'd do if they knew the truth about my high life and my low life and all the demons in between.

It felt like a first date. Vega had never been on a first date. She could not remember sleeping with someone she hadn't been in a fistfight with first.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

Fueron desterrados —le corrigió Yandros, con una malévola sonrisa—. No destruidos. No se puede destruir lo que es fundamental en el Universo, Keridil Toln; solamente se puede apartar del campo de conflicto durante un tiempo.

Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

When someone shoots at us, we return fire," said Jean-Guy. Now Jacques did nod. "But it's equally important that when someone is kind to us, we return that as well,

Matthew 10:36," he'd said. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Never forget that, Agent Lacoste.

When senior officers start shooting each other, it's time to leave," said Gamache. "I'm sure it's somewhere in the regulations.

There was nothing right or good in dying for your country. A necessity, sometimes, yes. But always a tragedy. Not an aspiration.

Anyone so damaged as to cause this much harm led a life full of secrets and full of enemies.

He was reminded again what Abbie Hoffman had said: We must eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

it didn't feel wrong. It felt wretched. Horrific. A nightmare. But sometimes "right" felt like that.

Armand stood up, still holding Stephen's hand, and said, "It's time. Let him go." Then he sat back down, his legs weak. If this was the right thing to do, why did it feel so wrong? But no, it didn't feel wrong. It felt wretched. Horrific. A nightmare. But sometimes "right" felt like that.

The madness of crowds was a terrible thing to see. The madness of police with clubs and guns was even worse.

She threw great logs of 'I'm right, you're an unfeeling bastard' on to the fire and felt secure and comforted.

Michael Brebeuf had long hated Armand. But he had loved him even longer.