Quotes About Conflict

Arvex led the others into the light. "Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won't wipe their boots on our cousins anymore." His grin made the carnage seem trivial.

Trying to shatter peace, even if it's not one you agree with, is the work of the mad and the wicked.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father's estate

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

Father said conflict develops the character

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.