Quotes About Conflict

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog--only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on.

Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.

It is not my purpose here to document the destruction caused by war [...] The point is to ask ourselves why these accounts have not had greater effect. [...] Why is it that many of us are deeply moved by visual art, fiction, and firsthand accounts of destruction and yet accept war as a means of resolving conflict or defending ourselves?

Years had passed, but we were still arguing about the same stuff. These patterns repeat themselves, with parents and children—that's another reason I went to India. If I was going to have a family, I wanted it to be totally different from the one I'd had.

When we hate each other, we hate with strong passion. It comes, I see, and it goes. I see also that, even in the worst of these situations, we have still chosen to be together, and always manage to find a way to bring it about. We have a stronger need to be together, even fighting and hating, than we have to be at peace, apart.

we have been civilizing the Filipinos up to the point where they are unanimous only on one thing, namely, that they want us to leave."12

if preparation prevents war, there would have been no war in Europe. They spent twenty years preparing for it."29

The Revolt against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man,

Her reason partly agreed, her instinct wholly rebelled.

en aquella semana me mordías los dedos con frecuencia porque pensabas que tenía malas intenciones; haciéndome daño, te anticipabas a mi traición; por mi parte, me odiaba porque eso me gustaba, me daban ganas de traicionarte para que me volvieras a morder

Peaceful?' they ask, at a loss for words. For those lucky enough never to have experienced war, the word "peaceful" has little meaning.

In search of the past, I have travelled halfway around the globe, from Canada to Afghanistan, from a world of peace, material comfort and technology to a country that lives in the shadow of its history - a place whose only relevance to the rest of the world depends on the value and extent of a Westerner's life and "security". It may be illusionary, self-indulgent or bizarre, but I still think digging into the grave of history might lead to an understanding of the present.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.

One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a certain point, one can only fight fire with fire.

A detachment of police confronted this army of earnest schoolchildren and without warning opened fire, killing thirteen-year-old Hector Pieterson and many others. The children fought with sticks and stones, and mass chaos ensued, with hundreds of children wounded, and two white men stoned to death

Bojovník za svobodu bolestn? zjiš?uje, že zp?sob boje ur?uje utla?ovatel a že utla?ovanému ?asto nezbývá než se uchýlit k týmž metodám, jaké používá utla?ovatel. V ur?ité chvíli zkrátka musíte nep?íteli oplatit stejnou mincí.

Para firmar la paz con un enemigo es necesario trabajar con él.

When describing why the African National Congress took the fateful decision to give up on nonviolence and take up arms, Mandela writes that they had no choice, that "the oppressor defines the nature of the struggle.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire