Quotes About Conflict

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself?

Violence is not synonymous for any resolution; but rather a step that hinders the coexistence of a peaceful society; for! peace leads humanity to the emergence land.

A política é desses incêndios que se acendem na casa do outro e quem arde é a nossa casa.

Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.

For this war was not made to take you away from your country, but to take your country away from within you.

Foi por isso que fizeram esta guerra, para envenenar o ventre do tempo, para que o presente parisse monstros em lugar de esperança. (...) Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.

A diferença entre a Guerra e a Paz é a seguinte: na Guerra, os pobres são os primeiros a serem mortos; na Paz os pobres são os primeiros a morrer. Para nós, mulheres, há ainda uma outra diferença: na Guerra, passamos a ser violadas por quem não conhecemos.

A guerra, disse o adivinho, é uma espécie de serpente que matamos sem pisar a cabeça. Um pequeno descuido e eis que ela ressurge no escondido do capinzal.

Besides, wars never begin. When we awaken to them, we realise they started long ago.

A guerra cria um outro ciclo no tempo. Já não são os anos, as estações que marcam as nossas vidas. Já não são as colheitas, as fomes, as inundações. A guerra instala o ciclo do sangue. Passamos a dizer: "antes da guerra, depois da guerra". A guerra engole os mortos e devora os sobreviventes.

The difference between war and peace is as follows: in war, the poor are the first to be killed; in peace, the poor are the first to die. For us women, there's another difference too: in war, we get raped by those we do not know.

la guerra convirtió la tierra en un cementerio.

La guerra no pide armas. Es al contrario: las armas hacen nacer la guerra.

A guerra é uma cobra que usa os nossos próprios dentes para nos morder.

Engano seu... Nenhuma guerra termina nunca.

Na guerra, os pobres são mortos. Na paz, os pobres morrem.

Part 2: Answer These Questions. Fiction: What is the Big Problem or central conflict? Who are the main characters? What are their goals, their mission? What are they trying to accomplish? What is the catalyst/presenting problem? Who or what are the biggest obstacles the main character has to face? What is at stake?

European colonists cleared or damaged bush because they did not value it and introduced to more than sixty-five per cent of the continent mono-cultures of non-Australian species they did value... it is our southern Eurasian ancestors... who are actually nomads because we overpopulate... damage land in the process, then wage wars on neighbours to take their land in order to continue to over-populate, and on it goes.

There can be no light without generating heat," adds Durango. "And confrontation generates heat and light.

Wars in history invariably become wars of history.

One night of strategic bombing will restore all your lost prestige in the Middle East

This is the Middle East, George, where one-sided concessions don't build trust. They build the demand for the next concessions.

Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively idyllic dunes of the Middle East.

Lebanon War, he entered Beirut at the head of