Quotes About Conflict

talking to Frost had become less like negotiating with a small angry hostage

We needed to find out where the refugees were now, if they were either a) murderees or b) murderers.

No," he said, and added with devastating candor, "you were counting on me not being able to speak your language." Florian gestured helplessly. "Tremaine!" "What, so I'll get in trouble?" Annoyed, she shrugged and moved on up the corridor. "Maybe they'll force me to go to another world and fight heavily armed sorcerers who—Oh, wait, we're doing that already.

Target Two accidentally (I'm guessing here; maybe they just didn't care for each other) stabbed Target One.

It's hard to make a proper argument when you're both on the same side.

Oh, don't make me fight you with words, cousin. It will get out of hand, as once started I lose the will to stop.

He can't hear me," Jai retorted. But it was better to present a cool united front to Canon Hain, not look as if they had been arguing like children. Especially if they had been arguing like children.

the big danger to humans is not raiders, angry human-eating fauna, or rogue SecUnits; it's other humans. They kill each other either accidentally or on purpose and you have to clear that up fast because it jeopardizes the bond and determines whether the company has to pay out damages on it or not. SecUnits are ordered by the HubSystem to gather video and audio evidence because nobody trusts the human supervisors, including the other human supervisors.

The only way out of this was to kill them.

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.

It's so easy to go from love to hate. But from hate back to love, that's the hard part.

Hate's caused a lot of problems in this world, and it's never solved one yet.

Anything that requires energy, like being in the outside world, having people in her space, dealing with conflict, and interacting with others, requires energy output and so is draining.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.

Victory in codependency/recovery thus sounds like this: 'As I changed, all hell broke loose in my marriage . . . My husband and I began to fight a lot. My changes threatened him. I kept getting better, but the healthier I got, the worse it got at home. . . . I consider filing for divorce a real triumph in my recovery.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

There are three principles in a man's being and life: The principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Modern conflict is as much about conditioning public opinion as any other strategy in the war against terror.

The man who has the courage to say he is wrong has to face the worst hatred; the hatred of those who think he is right.

The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall.