Quotes About Conflict

There is no one who has no enemy.

A man regards his son as his enemy.

A man strikes his maternal brother.

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

They were quarrelsome fellows and liked fighting so much, they even fought among themselves.

ratovi su kao požari koje još nitko nije pogasio, a mogla bi ih pogasiti isklju?ivo sama ljudska pamet na temelju spoznaje da je rat diluvijalno divljaštvo, a da je današnji ?ovjek, ukoliko je to, naime ?ovjek, davno ve? prestao da bude kanibal.

Stolje?a mogu da žive jedno uz drugo stolje?ima, kao dvije strane rase u kavezu: majmuni i papige!

Care Karlo i carice Zita Što ratuješ kada nemaš žita

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.

You read her diary! That's wrong, Ma!" Ma closes the incinerator door and raises her palms in the air like she's praying. "I have to find out what's going on in her head, don't I? It's my duty to keep her safe." "You'll make her dangerous instead," Starry answers.

I got into an argument with my girlfriend inside a tent. A tent is not a good place for an argument. I tried to walk out on her and had to slam the flap.

This conflict between my aspirations and my bitterness is the essence of my story. It has not been resolved. It may never be.

People in America get up and go to their nine-to-five jobs every day and are oblivious to all these battles and wars and people dying every minute all over the world. This is life. This is how other countries live. This is a daily occurrence in some places.

Tig had been thinking about the aftermath of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, memorialized in Black Hawk Down, particularly the part when locals had dragged the bodies of American soldiers through the streets.

Some GRS operators called the rogue militias "gangs with guns," filled with twitchy young men amped up from chewing leaves of khat.

Albert Einstein once said, "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Within weeks of the attacks, the United States went to war in Afghanistan, a conflict that continues at this writing. The war in Iraq followed, starting in 2003 and officially ending in 2011.

Ico made to charge her again. The queen raised a clawlike nail, but Yorda stepped between them. Without a word, Yorda stretched out her arms in front of Ico, holding him back. Ico looked into her eyes and she shook her head, pleading with him.

People were always good at justifying their actions if there was a need, or even the appearance of one, and were quick to turn to violence when necessary.

Surrounded by progress, I feel a nagging sense of our species' regression.

Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.

There are times when everything on earth spits out the stench of human blood

Old Du," he said, "what would people think if you started a fight with a blind man? We all live in the same village. We win some arguments and we lose others, but it's always a matter of someone's bowl smashing into someone else's plate, and that's how it goes. Up there on Changbai Mountain, it's no easy matter to run into a fellow villager, so you feel as if you're with family!