Quotes About Conflict

Each of the women elaborately ignored the other.

Better a gringo than a dead man," the lieutenant sighed, smoke escaping his nostrils. "Barely! But, yes, hell yes.

Lately," said Hubbard, "I have been considering language to be the enemy.

The armored creatures wrestled one another, and when one seemed about to climb out of the basket and make its escape, the others would grab it and haul it back down into the endless battle.

Each of these proud cabrones refusing to apologize for whatever they were mad about. Each one waiting for some sign. And Mama, in the middle, frantic. All she wanted was to see what was left of her family come together, before…Well, before.

Deus e a Pátria são um time imbatível; eles quebram todos os recordes de opressão e derramamento de sangue.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time I fuck it feels as if I am wrestling with demons.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Dinner parties bring out the worst in everyone.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

THE ABUSER'S PROBLEM IS NOT THAT HE RESPONDS INAPPROPRIATELY TO CONFLICT. HIS ABUSIVENESS IS OPERATING PRIOR TO THE CONFLICT: IT USUALLY CREATES THE CONFLICT, AND IT DETERMINES THE SHAPE THE CONFLICT TAKES.

Children do best when parents are neither overly strict nor overly permissive, providing firm structure but also allowing for dialogue, respectful conflict, and compromise.

Abusers drive wedges between people, by accident or by design.

Sradica l'albero genealogico dell'avversario con la forza del turpiloquio.

deito-me para sofrer menos, refugiada nas lembranças para não ter de tomar decisões na vida, mergulhar no passado para não enfrentar o futuro. Ou para entender o presente? É tão vazio o meu presente. O conflito, por menor que seja, hoje em dia desgasta-me demasiado. Prefiro vegetar.

War-waging and peace-making are as old as ants and apes.

But no matter how clearly I saw what I was doing, I would go on doing it, as though I simply allowed my shame to sit there alongside my need to do it, one separate from the other. I often chose to do the wrong thing and feel bad about it rather than to do the right thing, if the wrong thing was what I wanted.

They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.

in every election their votes cancel each other, and they are as no one.

Every soul is a battlefield.

The logical outcome of the Pro-Slavery party was the Southern Confederacy; the logical outcome of the Anti-Slavery party was the Republican party; the logical outcome of the conflict between the two was the Civil War.

God conducts all his campaigns upon analogous principles. The emancipation of mankind is always wrought out by a forlorn hope. God is not on the side of the strong battalions. In moral conflicts, at least, numbers never count. Only the few have faith in God and courage in his cause; and faith and courage alone gain the battle.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."