Quotes About Conflict

he was expelled from the castle by Moray and the laird and forbidden to return.

Forced to retreat by a smaller but better-disciplined English battalion, the Scots were snared.

The result was a crushing defeat for Mary. The battle got off to a disastrous start.

Within three months, the first of the Wars of Religion would have begun in France

what Moray and the rebel lords had done was unconscionable

She turned next to Moray's base in Fife, cutting his supply lines.

The rivals met in a battle lasting three hours.

in 1513, at least the Scots had been scythed down in hand-to-hand combat during a set-piece battle.

She allied with the pro-French Beaton and Lennox, whose joint forces mustered at Linlithgow on July 24.

Arran and Lennox were rival claimants to the succession. Their families were old enemies;

it was impossible to believe they would stay on the same side for long.

Pope Paul IV refused to declare in her favor

What a splendid little war!

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.

I told him there is no Words with Friends in this life: there is only Scrabble, with enemies.

Should an individual or a government use force at all, even in retaliation? Clearly yes; complete pacifism is self-defeating.

I traveled from city to city in those days, and the view from within the ghettos was terrible and terrifying. While white people in the periphery were arming themselves against the day when they would have to defend themselves from attack by blacks (and really believed someone was fomenting a racial war in which black people would rise up and attack them), black people mostly without arms huddled inside the ghettos feeling that they were surrounded by armed whites.

The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would still be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.