Quotes About Conflict

I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

No buts, nothing. You have the ability to piss me off without even trying, but I'll fucking take a gun to my head before I lay a hand on you. You clear on that?

There was just one problem—he didn't want any other woman. He wanted the violet-eyed soldier who had, completely justifiably, told him to fuck off.

A dark god. And she knew that thought was her own. Because the very thing that repelled her about Raphael also attracted her. Power.

The peacemaker must have the strongest heart and the toughest will in the room.

Ella te amenazó, Elena. No hizo falta que dijera nada más. Ella sabía muy bien lo que Rafael haría para protegerla. —Hay muchas mujeres que tienen problemas con sus suegras. La mirada que le dirigió Rafael no tuvo precio. —Mi madre es una arcángel demente. Elena estuvo a punto de echarse a reír…

Attracted to one of the Silent? His mouth set in a grim line. He'd cut off his own balls before he accepted that.

So I don't see the theme of the story as nature versus science. I see it as a conflict between demanding and understanding, between the kinds of labor that our society values or doesn't value, "innovators" versus "maintainers." It's

It is the internal battles that Rama has to fight that interest me now, and there are many. Sadly, he loses the most important battle of all, the battle to be the person that he wants to be, irrespective of what his cosmic and public destinies have in store for him. It is this terrible dislocation of the self that gives rise to his anxieties about Sita and his treatment of her.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun ... —Robert Frost

Truely was a Mississippi boy still. He didn't have a thing against religion, especially in the gentle hands of somebody like his daddy--or his mother either. But he wasn't too much persuaded when salvation was fired out of a double-barrel shotgun aimed point-blank at his skull.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. —Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations (1942)

It's pointless to defeat evil by destroying life.

In fact, she sounded like she was mad at Katie for wearing it.

In my head I remember that day the Indian man came and hollered at our camp and hadn't hurt anyone yet and I think that he was trying to say something, but no one will lift their eyes when I speak so I don't say anything.

I can see being angry with folks. Shoot, I'd about hang Chess on the laundry line any day of the week, but I don't shun him. Shunning's no way to get over and done with your fussing. It just drives in a sword that won't come out unless the person holding it pulls first.

It seems to me that any time there are men making a war, somewhere there are women and children at home waiting and worrying.

Or were we all only part of each other's lives for a moment, putting down our swords long enough to win a war against a common enemy? Would we be friends if we'd met any other way?

I'm about fed up with men right now. It's just trouble, always trying to figure what one's got caught in his craw that he isn't telling.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

We tend to forget that an estimated three hundred thousand white southerners, many from the border states, fought for the Union side, and that four border states never seceded.

There is no way to know precisely how many men deserted. The official count from the U.S. provost marshal's report was 103,400. This was out of a total of 750,000 to 850,000 men listed as in the army by the end of the war.

Jackson's personality was a crucial part of his democratic appeal as well as the animosity he provoked.

Wars in general, and civil wars to a greater degree, have the effect of exacerbating class tensions, because the sacrifices of war are always distributed unequally, and the poor are hit hardest. North and South had staked so much on their class-based definitions of nationhood that it is no exaggeration to say that in the grand scheme of things, Union and Confederate leaders saw the war as a clash of class systems wherein the superior civilization would reign triumphant.