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Quotes About Conflict

The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.
~ Max Weber
A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
~ Max Weinreich
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
~ Max Weinreich
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
The ground we walk on is impacted down and hard with blood and bones of those who died unjustly. There's not one title to land or life, even your own, but was built on rape and murder, back a few years. It would take a fire indeed to burn out all this error.
~ Maxwell Anderson
It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.
~ May Sarton
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
~ Maya Lin
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
~ Maya Lin
You mean the War of Colonial Aggression?
~ Unknown
Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart's hatred on one another." "But
~ Unknown
Smatrao sam da me mora razumjeti, ako me voli, da me mora razumjeti i kad ništa ne kažem, mora biti na mojoj strani i kad nemam pravo. Zaboravljaju?i da bi to trebalo da bude i moja obaveza, okrenuo sam se protiv nje, stavljaju?i ih zajedno na jednu stranu. Sad sam sâm, ima zadovoljstva i u tome. I ne želim više da ih uvjerim, da im objasnim sebe, ho?u da imam pravo. Jer imam pravo, iako to nema nikakva zna?aja.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Rat je surova ali poštena borba, kao me?u životinjama. Život u miru je surova borba, ali nepoštena, kao me?u ljudima. Razlika je ogromna.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Mržnja je bila u meni kao mra?na i strašna snaga
~ Meša Selimovi?
Teško ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle razli?ito. - Lako ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle.
~ Meša Selimovi?
War's a cruel but honest struggle, as between animals. Life in peace is cruel struggle, but a dishonest one, as between men.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Zatvorio sam se, postao opsa?ena tvr?ava o koju su strijele uzalud udarale. Nije mi prijatelj, ili je ?udan prijatelj koji mi sije?e korijenje, potkopava temelje. Nema prijateljstva me?u ljudima koji druk?ije misle.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Znaš li šta sam mislio dok si govorio? Kako neki ljudi mogu da kažu sve što ho?e, i možeš da primiš ili ne primiš, ostaješ miran. A neki u jesnu rije? unesu sebe, i odjednom se sve zažari, niko ne ostaje miran. Osjetimo da se nešto važno dešava.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Throughout the history, national and international conflicts can be traced to economic reasons, they can be disguised under different propaganda and may take different forms as conflicts evolve, but these forms are the effect not the cause.
~ Unknown
You will pit one family, gathering, community, and nation against another until all are destroyed.
~ Unknown
MANY DUTCH CAME AS SETTLERS, THEY PUSHED THE NATIVE PEOPLE OFF THEIR LANDS. THE DUTCH FORMED THEIR OWN COLONY, A
~ Unknown
Every war has it's turning points, and every person too.
~ Meg Rosoff
Minden háború történetének van fordulópontja, és minden emberének is.
~ Meg Rosoff
Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese...
~ Meg Rosoff
Each day, a new crisis, a new massacre, a new threat of extinction, disease, internecine conflict, meteorological catastrophe... Behold man. Violent, self-serving and ruthless when in power; exploited, miserable and diseased when not.
~ Meg Rosoff