Quotes About Conflict

Man is distinguished from animals by having separated, ultimately into a state of mutual conflict, aspects of life (instincts) which in animals exist in some condition of undifferentiated unity or harmony

But in the unconscious the repressed dreams of omnipotent indulgence in pleasure persist, as the nucleus of man's universal neurosis and his restless discontent, the cor irrequietum of St. Augustine. The infantile conflict between actual impotence and dreams of omnipotence is also the basic theme of the universal history of mankind. And in both conflicts—in the history of the individual and the history of the race—the stakes are the meaning of love.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn't matter. It went up in a flash.

Ah good, I thought, another thesis topic although unfortunately not in my field, id est proving that women are almost invariably the appeasers when fights occur that lead to stalemates

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

War is a profane thing.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.

Jerry's fortune cookie said: "Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.

This is an example of why the humanists have always insisted that you don't learn to think wholly from one language: you learn to think better from linguistic conflict, from bouncing one language off another.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

The process of history is combustion.

one group's resistance fighter is another group's rogue.

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

Hate can burn itself out in the first light of day as readily as love can.

Tu?rul, kendilerinin bir ?eye kar?? olduklar?m, bu amaçla bir parti kurman?n zor olaca??n? belirtmeye çal??t?. "Bir ?eyden yana de?iliz ki Hayri," dedi hüzünle, "Bir parti kural?m." ?oför Hayri ?iddetle içini çekti: "Ah bir olabilseydik a?abeyci?im, biz de bir ?eyden yana olabilseydik." Tu?rul, "Ya da bir ?eyler bizden yana olsayd?," diye tamamlad?.

Ba?ka türlü hissetseydim ölmü?tüm ?imdi. Ayr?ca, kaç kere tavan aras?na ç?kmay? içimden geçirdim. Hele kendini öldürdü?ünü duysayd?m, muhakkak ç?kard?m. Darg?n oldu?umuza filan bakmazd?m.

Bizim gibiler ancak oyunlarda ölür. Bizim gibiler dü?ünceleri yüzünden ölmez. Her zaman 'millet birbirini öldürür.' Biz sadece seyrederiz onlar?.

Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.

I was thinking of love,' I replied in a tone of reproach, 'and here you are talking to me again—forever—about torture!' 'Doubtless! since it's the same thing—

To Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.