Quotes About Conflict
I heard disbelief and questioning, threats and cursing, honor and disgust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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JDAHYA WOULD NOT LEAVE her. As much as she had hated her solitary confinement, she longed to be rid of him. He fell silent for a while and she wondered whether he might be sleeping—to the degree that he did sleep. She lay down herself, wondering whether she could relax enough to sleep with him there. It would be like going to sleep knowing there was a rattlesnake in the room, knowing she could wake up and find it in her bed.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together. EARTHSEED:
~ Octavia E. Butler
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one is…a major key to us, to human beings, I mean. When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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change, and with Jarret, who with his war and his Crusaders, has slowed it even more.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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So when I did decide that I had to fight, I set out to hurt the other kid more than kids usually hurt one another.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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You're supposed to be dirty now. If you're clean, you make a target of yourself. People think you're showing off, trying to be better than they are. Among the younger kids, being clean is a great way to start a fight.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles, and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight. -Makino
~ Unknown
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
~ Ogden Nash
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People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
~ Ogden Nash
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Which the Chicken and Which the Egg? He drinks because she scolds, he thinks; She thinks she scolds because he drinks; And nether will admit what's true, That he's a sot and she's a shrew.
~ Ogden Nash
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People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
~ Ogden Nash
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A jesieni? 2016, (.......), w Ukrainie dobiega? ko?ca trzeci rok wojny z Rosj?, we Francji kremlowscy kandydaci przymierzali si? do fotela prezydenckiego (jak mawia? Borys Bierezowski o nowych zasadach polityki zagranicznej Federacji Rosyjskiej ,,po co kupowa? fabryk?, skoro mo?na kupi? dyrektora?").......
~ Unknown
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Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.
~ Olaf Stapledon
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Wie pani, czasem mam wra?enie, ?e ?yjemy w ?wiecie, który sobie wymy?lamy. Ustalamy sobie, co jest dobre, a co nie, rysujemy mapy znacze?... A potem ca?e ?ycie zmagamy si? z tym, co?my sobie wykoncypowali. Problem polega na tym, ?e ka?dy ma swoj? wersj?, i dlatego tak trudno jest si? ludziom dogada?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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To tell the truth, I like the concept of evil people who eliminated each other, in a chain.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves . . . And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other." There was some truth in
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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Inimene muutub, kasvab vanadest oludest välja nagu laps rõivaist. Aeg voolab ja muudab kõike. On suuri ja väikesi sõdu, need suured muudavad maailma, väikesed inimest.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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To tell the truth, I liked the concept of evil people who eliminate each other, in a chain.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
~ Oliver Cromwell
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
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