Quotes About Conflict

In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.

The wounds Mao sought to reopen had been inflicted during the nineteenth century when the future superpowers were grinding against each other like so many tectonic plates. The world as we know it was forming then, along fault lines of race, culture, and geography.

If your partner tells you about getting angry at a coworker and biting that person's head off, then you ought to wonder when that same attitude will be aimed at you.

Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

Why is Mommy crying?" the young boy asks his dad, all sugared up and bewildered with concern. "Because you're an asshole," barks back the father with exasperated logic.

Whilst wretched Man is still in Arms for fear For fear he armes, and is of Armes afraid.

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.

If this were a movie I'd be the bad guy.

It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people.

That he would pause In his killing To go about the business Of preparing for the living Knowing That he will immediately return To the business of killing?

One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock...

He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His." Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)

Anyone who ain't family is opposition

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.