Quotes About Conflict

Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general.

In his heart, the joy of living fought with the hurt of it until he could no longer separate them, and the effort made him understand that they were not him. That he was apart from them, evaluating them. The

It's beginning to sound like the part we play is 'mediator'," Vasiht'h said, the mindline tacky with the memory of embarrassment, like something spilled and left without cleaning. "Goddess knows I've untangled enough squabbles in my family to know sometimes what you really need is a third party to translate.

I am an utter unbeliever that anything that is violent will have permanent results.

His insistence that his government deal only with the Right had made it a hostage to nationalist interest groups and alienated the rest of the country. His embracing and encouragement of a public rhetoric which bristled with violence, racial stereotyping and threats had helped to bolster an image abroad of a nation hungering for conflict.

German aggression tended to backfire,

But we glared into each other's eyes like men who have ruined each other already, and who only wait to make the full disaster known

I shall speak of love... and of hate. It is truly a marvel, but I tell you, hatred and love may live cramped together, crouching in the same heart.

By noon on the first day of Operation Barbarossa, the Germans had destroyed more planes than they did in a whole year of their air assault on Britain. The Russian air force had been neutralized almost without firing a shot. The Western Front's air force commander, staggered at the overwhelming futility of the loss, took out his gun and killed himself.

He was glaring at me. "I'm sorry," I said. He asked, "For what?" "For what I did." "What about what you didn't do?

What is all this? What did we fight for? Why did we shed our blood, if I can't dance to my heart's content — and I'm supposed to be a leader of the new society!

It is truly a marvel, but I tell you, hatred and love may live cramped together, crouching in the same heart. There are many secret chambers in our hearts where love can hide and many battlements where hate can stand, watching for enemies.

He even wrote a ballet about soccer, in which crooked capitalist soccer players face off against clean-living Soviets who perform startling slowmotion gymnastics.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

Tudo se resume e se resumirá, pelos séculos, a uma estratificada e convencional briguinha entre o Mal e o Bem.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

I think you're a terrible person and I hope you get some psychiatric help. Go to hell.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other

Peace is not a spectator sport

Disgusting Serbs, get out!

The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict.

with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.

the clash between Nazi lies and the rule of law came to a head; the lies won.