Quotes About Conflict

Anger can transform you from being a friend to a foe.

Just because you're mad at someone, doesn't means you stop loving them.

I hate it when I'm mad at someone and they make me smile!

I wanted you for nothing more, than hating you for what you were.

Instead of fighting with your girl and being upset, put yourself in their shoes. There might just be more to the story that you don't know.

Being upset with someone actually bringa you back together.

I want to hate you, I'm mad as hell, oh but a part of me still loves you, and hopes and prays to God you're doing well.

that men can be being sincere with their friends, and even with themselves, when they speak warmly of a woman's kindness to them, even though, to tell the truth, their relationship is undermined secretly, in a way they do not confess to others or which is revealed involuntarily in response to questions, to inquiries, by a painful anxiety.

He who is in the wrong believes himself in the right, as was the case with Germany, and he who is in the right supports it with arguments which only appear irrefutable to him because they respond to his anger. In these quarrels between individuals, in order to be convinced that one of the parties is in the right — the surest plan is to be that party; no onlooker will ever be so: completely convinced of it.

I arrived there at the same time as the Germans. Everybody wanted to prevent me going, I was treated as though I were mad. 'What,' they said to me, 'you are safe in Paris and you want to leave for those invaded regions just as everybody else is trying to get away from them?' I recognised the justice of this reasoning but what was to be done?

even men like Brichot who, before the war, had been militarist and reproached France for not being sufficiently so, were not satisfied with blaming Germany for the excesses of her militarism, but even condemned her for admiring her army.

But all that is a thing of the past. With the terrible advance of artillery, the wars of the future, if there are to be any more wars, will be so short that, before we have had time to think of putting our lessons into practice, peace will have been signed.

Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their warfare ensure the continuity of existence.

Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

But, for one thing, however fiercely the Dreyfus cyclone was raging, it is not at the onset of a storm that the waves are at their most violent.

Always remember that, when all's said and done, what does most to accelerate the evolution of the art of war is wars themselves. In

He who is in the wrong believes himself in the right, as was the case with Germany, and he who is in the right supports it with arguments which only appear irrefutable to him because they respond to his anger.

Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

Every morning you slunk out of our house after breakfast, leaving behind the books and the smell of coffee....and like a spy going deep undercover into enemy territory, you entered a world that was a terrible inversion of everything I had taught you to value: a world shaped by toughness, boastful ignorance, firm gender stereotypes, underachievement, and the threat of violence.

Hatred is like blood, it's impossible to conceal and it stains everything.

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head.

Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

Andan las tres todo el santo día riñendo, pero cuando hay que despellejar a una mujer, están que muerden en un confite.