Quotes About Conflict

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

War's balance will prevail.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

I have a bone to pick with Fate

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.

The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.

You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

For dhrames always go by conthraries my dear.