Quotes About Conflict

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

This split the scientific community up into factions and promoted conflict. This was Stalin's objective. It permitted him to intervene and take sides whenever deemed necessary

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

Când plou?, oamenii citesc, merg la cinema È™i se îndr?gostesc, artiÈ™tii lucreaz?, soldaÈ›ii ramân în corturi. Dar ce fac b?rbaÈ›ii si femeile când nu plou?? Fac plaj?, pierd vremea în faÈ›a vitrinelor magazinelor de îmbr?c?minte, organizeaz? garden parties È™i masacre. Au loc mai multe r?zboaie în ??rile s?race în precipitaÈ›ii.

Martin: Chíngas a tu madre...

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

America's current economic decline must be halted, or else one day the crime that is rampant in the streets of New York and Washington, D.C. may develop into low intensity conflict by coalescing along racial, religious, social, and political lines, and run completely out of control

Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

As Plato wrote long ago, the only people who will no longer see war are the dead. Which, of course, is precisely why we need to understand it as best we can.

War was neither a means in the hands of policy nor was it an end in itself. Instead it was regarded as an evil; albeit one that was sometimes made necessary by the imperfection of the world.

When the ego does not seem to live up to the beliefs, ideas, and judgments that are imposed from its context, internal conflict arises, and this creates a new layer of masking and character formation

The two most powerful nations had been squared off against each other," Khrushchev stated, "each with its finger on the button." "It is insane," Kennedy said, "that two men sitting on opposite sides of the world should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Leser und Schreiber sind also uneinverstandene Leute. Leute, die sich nicht abgefunden haben. Noch nicht. Hätten sie sich abgefunden, wären sie zufrieden mit sich und allem, würden sie nicht mehr lesen und schreiben, sondern gingen andauernd in die Oper.