Quotes About Conflict

Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries

The history of Europe—and indeed the world—is stained by the blood of nations convinced that the path to glory can be found by disparaging others and going it alone.

my rifle had brought death and destruction

Drawing even with her, the Prince strode along at her side, still scowling ferociously. "It is not for me to tell you what to do. The wizards of Leal are the High King's allies, not his subjects. But if you were my sister or my cousin—" "If I were your sister or your cousin," she retorted, "you still wouldn't have the power or the right to change my mind!

Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. "What has Hector ever done to me?

When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn't know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won't light.

Achilles makes a sound like choking. "There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw." His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector's throat.

I wished Odysseus were there so I could ask him: but how did the king get that man to help him, the one who had struck him so deep? The answer that came to me was from a different tale. Long ago, in my wide bed, I had asked Odysseus: "What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?" He'd smiled in the firelight. "That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.

Do you think Aristos Achaion fights in hopeless wars?

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

I do not know this man, I think. He is no one I have ever seen before. My rage towards him is hot as blood. I will never forgive him. I imagine tearing down our tent, smashing the lyre, stabbing myself in the stomach and bleeding to death. I want to see his face broken with grief and regret. I want to shatter the cold mask of stone that has slipped down over the boy I knew.

It was our weakness that drew the war out, not her strength.

Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

If every soldier killed only those who'd personally offended him Peleides, we'd have no wars at all.

It was easy, in those moments, to forget that the war had not yet really begun.

My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back. He

Her calmness enraged me.

She thought that she had power to drive a wedge between us, but she had nothing.

Do you always make beautiful things for those you are angry with?

I am no coward". My voice rose, and my skin went hoy. "Your father thinks you are" His words were deliberate, as if he were savoring them. "I heard him tell my father so." "He did not" But I knew he had.

Men's faces are heavy with anger, but there are no more fights—it is too hot. They lie in the dark and hate each other.

The truce between the gods held only because Titans and Olympians each kept to their sphere.

If every soldier killed only those who'd personally offended him, Pelides, we'd have no wars at all.

Whichever you choose, you are wrong.