Quotes About Conflict

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions—that was the error of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

Politics you should banish absolutely—if people are not of one mind about them they are sure to quarrel over them; if they are of one mind no subject can be drearier.

It was with bitter hearts and deadly thoughts that we, the remnant of the Six Hundred, rode back, leaving the flower of the Light Brigade dead or dying before those murderous Russian guns; — and it was all done, all over, in five-and-twenty minutes — less than a fast up-wind fox-hunt would have taken at home!

the amateurs, who had come out to see what was doing in the Crimea, as they went other years to Norwegian fishing or Baden roulette, were scattered about in yachting costume, and stirred to a little excitement as the Russian shells began to burst among us, and the bombs to fall with thuds loud enough to startle the strongest nerves.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Love is a kind of warfare.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Go on so! I don't reckon yu' know what you're sayin'. Yu' might as well ask fruit to stay green. If the way we are now can keep bein' enough for you, it can't for me. A pleasure to you, is it? Well, to me it is—I don't know what to call it. I come to yu' and I hate it, and I come again and I hate it, and I ache and grieve all over when I go. No! You will have to think of some other way than just invitin' me to keep green

Mind you, no one who lives in the real world spends the whole time going around saying, 'Oh yes,darling, I understand, let's talk about our "feelings", lah-dee-f**king-dah.' People who say they've never had a cross word are living on another f**king planet.

Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.

Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me. I hope they all drown. "Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you." Great. Clearly they didn't drown.

As your girlfriend, you've just pissed me off. As your High Priestess, you've just insulted me. And as someone with a working brain, you've made me wonder if you've lost every bit of your sense. (Zoey Redbird)

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

particularly acrimonious, so

rudeness begets conflict with others but also conflict within ourselves, and the latter can prove as hurtful as the former (p. 43).

We agreed that many a human life is sacrificed in sudden anger, because one or both the parties carry deadly weapons.