Quotes About Conflict

There is no Israel for me.

une conversation entre hommes, cette chose curieuse qui semble toujours hésiter entre la pédérastie et le duel

The fighting had begun. You could make out groups of masked men roaming around with assault rifles and automatic weapons. Windows had been broken, here and there cars were on fire, but the images, shot in the pelting rain, were of such poor quality it was impossible to get a clear idea of who was doing what.

ik wist alleen dat het een streek is waar confit de canard wordt gegeten; en confit de canard leek me niet goed te verenigen met een burgeroorlog. Maar ik kon me vergissen.

All societies have their points of least resistance, their sore spots. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard.

that if a civil war should break out in France, it would take a while to reach the south-west. I knew next to nothing about the south-west, really, only that it was a region where they ate duck confit, and duck confit struck me as incompatible with civil war.

Born and raised in France. Slaughtered in France.

Quiero a ese niño más que a nada en el mundo. Pero nunca he conseguido aceptar su existencia

Curieusement, les pays occidentaux étaient extrêmement fiers de ce système électif qui n'était pourtant guère plus que le partage du pouvoir entre deux gangs rivaux, ils allaient même parfois jusqu'à déclencher des guerres afin de l'imposer

if a civil war should break out in France, it would take a while to reach the southwest. I knew next to nothing about the southwest, really, only that it was a region where they ate duck confit, and duck confit struck me as incompatible with civil war.

victim's avoidance of 'fighting back' and the bully's interpretation of this as a weakness.

I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

How many people bled from the cut of a sharp tongue?

Why did something so wrong have to feel so right

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. Robert Collier

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. Mary Karr, The Liar's Club

the twentieth century was best represented by an unwilling traveler. "I mean, think of the millions of soldiers mobilized by wars. And all the people made homeless because of them. Now the world is full of people who don't belong where they end up and long for the places where they did.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

Have you forgotten," she said in a furious whisper, "that he nearly killed us? That he threw my quiver in the stream, and threatened to snap my bow?" It was unclear which she considered worse: threatening them or her bow.

Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!" "No, he won fairly enough!"

Wolf hated the female tailless. He'd hated her from the first moment he'd smelt her, as she pointed the long claw that flies at his pack brother. What a thing to do! As if Tall Tail-less was some kind of prey!...Didn't she know that he was the lead wolf? She was so sharp and disrespectful when she yipped at him in tail-less talk. Why didn't Tall Tail-less just snarl and chase her away?