Quotes About Conflict

It's the standard-issue Indian male syndrome. Mothers and sisters on a pedestal on the one hand, and loose women and prostitutes below the boot on the other. And me, a good Marathi girl like his sisters, consorting with all of you wastrels and worse. Too confusing for him.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

They carry grenades and will die rather than be captured,' Scar informed him. 'Problem?'Thorn enquired. 'It will wash off.

Sometimes, when you fight a war, you become what you are fighting.

However, let us not presume politicians are ineffectual, for whenever the bombs and napalm are falling, the mines taking off legs and the bullets punching holes in human flesh, they are always behind the firing line, deciding who should die.

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

Apathy in the face of continual violence is something someone who has never lived through a war cannot understand.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

When two people fail to overlap on anything really important, all kinds of problems can develop.

Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

JEANNIE It's not like she's … She's really fat, Tom! A fat sow and you know it. I can tell you're aware by the way you're acting, which is really the puzzling part … TOM I-like-her. End of story.

President Kennedy would have been better served if he had remembered from his days as a junior officer in the Navy that the closer one gets to a fight, the more one learns of its essence.

Malcolm Browne managed to take a photograph of Arnett [AP's Peter Arnett] standing behind Halberstam for protection a moment later, just before another plainclothesman sneaked up behind Browne and smashed his camera with a rock. The rock did not damage the film inside. The Surete men backed off. They apparently had orders not use clubs, and they decided Halberstam was too much for them hand to hand. The uniformed police did not intervene

Não estou acostumado com a arte da amizade: as provocações, as brigas e as reconciliações. Por exemplo: Por quantos dias uma pessoa deve ficar alterada se um amigo solta um comentário insensível ou demonstra deslealdade? Esses são números que eu deveria anotar no meu registro.

Jimmy always preached' Charge a pistol. Run from a rifle

To them, kindness was seen as weakness, mercy was perceived as cowardice and negotiation was a code word for a bullet in the head.

We can bring in all the guns and drugs we need and bring out all the bodies of people we don't.