Quotes About Conflict

Unlike the huge majority of the current generation in the West, the men on both sides at Dien Bien Phu did not live at a time or in places where they enjoyed the luxury of disregarding [that war is what human beings do]; and we, who are lifelong civilians, have not earned the right to sit in judgement over them.

It is one of the central human tragedies that war is not an aberration-it is what human beings do.

In dealing with objections, as with differences of opinion, nothing is gained by confrontation, though much is to be gained by appreciation of the other's viewpoint. Most objections you hear are best handled by first demonstrating your understanding of the other's viewpoint. Always start your response with 'I understand' or 'I can appreciate your position' or 'I see your point' or 'of course' followed by 'However' or 'Also consider' or a similar line that puts you back into consideration.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10

She had always been the voice of reason, had been the one who smoothed over quarrels and made sure that they remembered they were family. Stopped the fights before they began and reminded them that, at the end of the day, each other was all that any of them really had. As close as they were, they had all fallen out big time over the years. She had been the voice of reason.

If we had been left to our own devices we would have been all right. But, oh, no. I had to have the mother-in-law from hell poking her nose in, opening her big trap.

A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36

Always fighting, arguing, and mouthing off to teachers and other pupils alike. But it was never her fault, it was always someone else's fault.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. Jean Anouilh

Your family is either the best thing that ever happened to you or it's the worst thing that ever happened to you.

It was rumoured even her husband would cross the road rather than meet Joanie when she had the hump.

I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.

See, if you're nice to people, they'll turn into fire skeletons and fight giant glowing man-gods.

Father, fatherWe don't need to escalateWar is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate

The only difference between street fighting and boxing is that there is a ref there stopping me from killing you.

Tenemos que librarnos de la idea de que somos una especie agresiva por naturaleza que no sabe evitar la guerra.

What did Jesus say to you? Thomas said to them: If I tell you one of the words which he said to me, you will take up stones (and) throw them at me; and a fire will come out of the stones (and) burn you up. [Gospel of Thomas - 13]

And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all. He disliked her, he resented her, he disapproved of almost everything about her, yet he was head over ears in love with her, like a foolish schoolboy. He wondered grimly what he was going to do about it. He was not amused. Or in any way pleased.

Whichever side won, as Cicero again observed, the result was set to be much the same: slavery for Rome. What came to be seen as a war between liberty and one-man rule was really a war to choose between rival emperors.

They create desolation and call it peace There

Trump and Clinton, Perseus and Medusa, and rest my case.

Rome had projected its obsessions with the apparently unending cycle of civil conflict back onto its founder. There

THE LONG SIEGE, and final destruction, of Carthage in 146 BCE was gruesome even by ancient standards, with atrocities reported on both sides. The losers could be as spectacularly cruel as the victors.

The losers could be as spectacularly cruel as the victors.