Quotes About Conflict

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

feminists hate me don't they? And i don't blame them. For i hate feminism. It is poison.

and what to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star MacArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges - they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mac tells God right off.

He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.

The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.

What then?" But she put the thought from her mind. When the war was over, everything would be settled, somewhow. If Ashley loved her, he simply couldn't go on living with Melanie.

The Little War? How can there be a little war? Are some deaths smaller than others, leaving mothers who weep a little less?

I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are separated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.

The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies.

How long will it be until the two countries I love forgive each other and move on . . . I'm not even sure what there is to forgive. Something about Cuba seizing ownership of oil refineries. It's all so confusing. Why should something as ugly as oil affect friendships between nations?

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

it seems as if people fought hardest against those who had a little more than themselves or often a little less, instead of the lugs who got richer and richer.

every time a bomb exploded, every anti-personnel weapon that sent its hundreds of particles tearing through the sift tissues of soft bodies, every helicopter that was shot down with its crew, every plane hit with a missile: brrrring, brrrring, on the great cash register in the homeland bank. It was all profit. It would have to be replaced. It was the perfect form of fantastically expensive and forced consumption, paid for by taxes.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.

I want to do what's right. But how can I, when I am faced with only impossible choices?

Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.

Adam," said Mrs. Hoops, as if it took a great deal of courage to bring out the words. "Mamma cannot live in the same house with dogs.

I want you to beat down the me in me that can't coexist with me.

Rayne, why is it you feel the need to argue with every single thing I say?" "Because every single thing you say is usually stupid and ridiculous.

I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.

The world isn't large enough for heroes and monsters at once. There's too much danger of confusion between the two categories.