Quotes About Conflict

Every choice closes doors ," I said, "and at some point you are left in the little room of yourself. I think most people who get to that room go crazy because they're surrounded with missed possibilities and no principle to explain or justify why they made the choices they did. I don't invite unhappiness, Aaron. Avoiding conflict may not be the noblest principle, but it works for me.

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

If democratic people are naturally brought toward peace by their interests and instincts, they are constantly drawn to war and revolutions by their armies." I

Grief is schizophrenic. You find yourself of two minds, the one that governs your days up until the moment of grief—the one that opens easily to memories of the girl at six, twelve, eighteen—and the one that seeks to destroy everything afterward.

Look, Malia, I know your theory. But you can't go round putting people's backs up!' 'I certainly wouldn't wish to do that!' said Dr Malia. 'Well, it annoys people, you know.' 'I'm sorry about that. I try not to get in the way.' 'Well, maybe, but – It's just that you're always creeping around.

This was war: a vast machine that chewed up people.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

Glass shot an irritated glance at Red, who had an uncanny knack for spotting problems and an utter inability for crafting solutions.

Men want to be right. Let them, I say. It drives him crazy when I won't take the other end of the rope. "Okay, you're right" are three devastating words.

Árbenz ordered the expropriation of 380,000 acres (154,000ha) of United Fruit land – a substantial chunk of its holdings, of which 85 per cent was left fallow, supposedly in case of banana diseases

She says I should reach out and build bridges, but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.

Men always imagine that women are bonded by ideas of sisterhood and solidarity, but we pick our fights and our friends.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. J.R.R . TOLKIEN

Festinger was the intellectually intense discoverer of "cognitive dissonance," the idea that when a personal belief is challenged by new information, we tend to ignore the new information in order to reduce mental conflict.

Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife. —Heraclitus (c. 540–c. 480 B.C., Greek philosopher)

recognize the enemy, who doesn't just fight on the battlefield

five times that amount to Middle Eastern nations, most of which want to destroy Israel. We can't afford this

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Bin Laden has been precise in telling America the reasons he is waging war on us. None of the reasons have anything to do with our freedom, liberty, and democracy, but have everything to do with U.S. policies and actions in the Muslim world.

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

The two that is one the one that is all. One to save the world, the other to destroy it.

What's the problem?" Josh demanded. "I can used my aura and just..." "..just reveal our location to everyone," Dee snapped. "No, I forbid it." "Well,if you have a genius plan, now's the time to reveal it," Josh said nervously.