Quotes About Conflict

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

She says: When are we gonna meet? I say: After a year and a war She says: When does the war end? I say: The time we meet

I am besieged by contradiction.

She says: When are we going to meet? I say: After a year and a war She says: When does the war end? I say: When we meet

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.

People regressed, around their families, to the age at which they had been angriest.

You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.

We should just bomb them back to the Stone Age.

Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians!

The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would dare attack the other, because to do so would result in its own immolation.

Ahora que esta amenaza [la agresión soviética] ha sido eliminada, han surgido otros problemas... Existe un enorme incentivo para trabajar cooperativamente. Pero las fuerzas del nacionalismo, el proteccionismo y los conflictos religiosos avanzan en dirección contraria. El nuevo orden mundial debe desarrollar un mundo cooperativo y encontrar nuevos medios para reprimir dichas fuerzas divisorias

Dos grandes potencias habían decidido fomentar antiguos odios étnicos en Yugoslavia, para convertirlos en una guerra local. En apariencia, la idea consistía en incrementar la dependencia de la zona afectada de la ayuda de organizaciones internacionales, lo cual equivalía a otorgar a organismos supranacionales la potestad de inmiscuirse en los asuntos de Estados individuales.

The more we appreciate from whence we came biologically, the better placed we will be to build up those cultural and environmental influences that help ameliorate the worst aspects of war.

We humans are a frightening animal. Throughout our species existence, we have used each new technology we have developed to boost the destructive power of our ancient predisposition for killing members of our own species.

The evidence of history is that no advance which can be applied to the killing of other human beings goes unused.

Systematic rape is one of the most hideous, and most explicitly male, expressions of warfare, but it is hardly the only one. All wars are extraordinarily costly in material terms and grotesquely painful in human terms. Yet wars are so much a part of the human experience that we don't always pause to realize that one of the most astonishing aspects of war is the very fact that we so regularly go out and deliberately kill members of our own species.

Abandoned weapons and corpses may be washed away, removed by animals, dismembered by the victors as trophies, or buried, burned, or otherwise disposed of by the vanquished after defeat. It is reasonable to expect that direct archaeological evidence of warfare will be limited, and that it will actually tend to underestimate the frequency and bloody nature of past conflicts.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

our law says you do not hurt someone unless they hurt you.

You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

He'll soon be as stuck-up as them.' Jude prodded me in the same place where he'd just punched me,