Quotes About Conflict

You chose her," he says. "Over me." "Over your pride." The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.

Navy: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Civilian: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to South to avoid a collision. Navy: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert your course. Civilian: No, I say again, divert your course. Navy: This is the aircraft carrier Enterprise. We are a large warship of the US Navy. Divert your course now!! Civilian: This is a lighthouse. Your call." Canadian naval radio conversation38

All women are at war all the time, and when I've got hunger pains, it shows a little more.

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do. --Meyer's Law

Too goddam many lawyers mixed up in this. Run the sonsobitches out. If they resists shoot 'em, that's what I says to the Governor, but they're all these sonsobitches a lawyers fussin' everythin' up all the time with warrants and habeas corpus and longwinded rigmarole. My ass to habeas corpus.

He was one of the grand old men until the churches and the congregations got wind that he was an infidel and believed in Darwin. Luther Burbank had never a thought of evil, selecting improved hybrids for America those sunny years in Santa Rosa. But he brushed down a wasp's nest that time; he wouldn't give up Darwin and Natural Selection and they stung him and he died puzzled.

a nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other.

Thus, in a Pageant Show, a Plot is made; And Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

NOW  with a general Peace the World was blest, While Ours, a World divided from the rest

There are two remaining speakers of Ayapaneco, an indigenous Mexican language; unfortunately, Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velázquez refuse to talk to one another, even though they are neighbors in their little village in the state of Tabasco.

And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places.

Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows

Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.

You were born into a savage war.

History is riddled with blood and sin.

The worst blows typically come from family.

We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. [ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]

The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.