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Quotes About Conflict

Gdyby wszystkie narody miaÅ'y nagle upomnie? siÄ™ o terytoria, gdzie ?yli ich praprzodkowie tysiÄ…ce lat wczeÅ›niej, Å›wiat staÅ'by siÄ™ domem wariatów".
~ Oriana Fallaci
To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.
~ Orrin Woodward
A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
~ Orson Scott Card
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
~ Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
~ Orson Scott Card
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
~ Orson Scott Card
Nuestros trabajos en piedra, en pintura, en impreso están a salvo -algunas de ellas por unas pocas décadas, o uno o dos milenios- pero finalmente todo deberá caer en la guerra o desaparecer en la final y universal ceniza.
~ Orson Welles
Name-calling, insult, ridicule, guilt by association, caricature, innuendo, accusation, denunciation, negative ads, and deceptive and manipulative videos have replaced deliberation and debate. Neither side talks to the other side, only about them; and there is no pretence of democratic engagement, let alone a serious effort at persuasion.
~ Os Guinness
You can judge a culture by what it talks about and what it refuses to talk about, and talk of "spiritual warfare" would be a useful litmus test today.
~ Os Guinness
There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.
~ Os Guinness
If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
~ Osama bin Laden
We, God willing, will continue to fight you and will continue martyrdom operations inside and outside the United States until you abandon your oppression and foolish acts.
~ Osama bin Laden
O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results.
~ Osama bin Laden
We reserve the right to retaliate... against all countries that take part in this unjust war, namely Britain, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy.
~ Osama bin Laden
We had patience in our fighting with the Soviet Union with simple weapons for 10 years. We exhausted their economy, so they disappeared. We will not abandon our fight until the weapons run out.
~ Osama bin Laden
The war is between us and the Jews. Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.
~ Osama bin Laden
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
~ Osama bin Laden
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
~ Osama bin Laden
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.
~ Osamu Dazai
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.
~ Osamu Dazai