Quotes About Conflict

The Micklethwaite family who owned and ran Cuckoo Farm were huddled in a group, sleepy and bewildered in thick coats thrown on over their pajamas. Three kids, aged between seven and twelve, were clinging to their parents. An old woman, whom Sid took to be the grandmother, was starting to argue with an agent, her croaky voice rising. She was claiming a lot of rights, as well as being insulting about Nazis and corrupt government officials.

Now Savi was playing her part in making sure no other innocents got hurt by psychotic ideologues who believed they had an absolute right to use force to achieve their goal.

would be dependent on who was speaking with whom, whose ideologies clashed, whose religions denounced the other. The whole point of ethnic streaming colonies, as Earth had painfully discovered centuries ago during the Great Dispersal, was that foreign cultures can live harmoniously with each other providing they didn't have to live jammed together on the same planet.

Wilson took three quick steps, bringing him right up to the interloper, and swung a fist.

How many terrorist attacks have there been in the last fifty years? The last seventy-five, even?" "Not many," Callum agreed grudgingly.

the newly arrived Ivets being hunted down and killed. Beaten into the mud with makeshift clubs, or gored by baying sayce to the sound of cheers. If they looked through the window at an angle they would be able to see boats of all sizes sailing hurriedly out of the circular polyp harbours for the safety of the water. I hate Adamists, Lori said. Only Adamists could do this to one another. They do it because they don't know one another. They don't love, they can only lust and fear.

You're frighteningly advanced, so it's comforting to know you put so much emphasis on ethics. They are so easy to abandon in times of war.

If you don't call them off, I will personally rip your fucking arkship apart molecule by molecule with all of you in it," Gore was yelling. "You think the Void is a bad thing? Do you, huh? You believe that? Because let me tell you: It is your mommy with her titty out for you to suck on compared to me.

Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

It is generally held that for such infants the caregiver has served as a source of both fear and reassurance, and thus arousal of the attachment behavioral system produces strong conflicting motivations. Not surprisingly, a history of prolonged or repeated separation (Chisolm 1998), intense marital conflict (Owen and Cox 1997), and severe neglect or physical or sexual abuse (Carlson, Cicchetti, Barnett, and Braunwald 1989) is often associated with this pattern.

Peter G. Tsouras

Peter G. Tsouras

In the immensity of earth, sky and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech – and nothing would happen. Nothing could happen.

She compares up, to the First World, where privileges are treated as rights. I compare down, to the apocalyptic Africa that presses in around us, where rights are only for the privileged. After covering wars in Mozambique, Angola, Uganda, Somalia, and Sudan, Zimbabwe feels to me like Switzerland.

Y los elementos que construyen todas las historias atractivas, ya sea que se cuenten oralmente o a través de las páginas de un libro, por medio de actores en una pantalla o en un monitor, son el reto, la lucha y la resolución.

El punto medio de la historia le obligaba a luchar con tres elecciones en apariencia imposibles: confiar en un cocodrilo, saltar al río sin protección alguna, o enfrentarse a sus propios perros, sedientos de sangre.

2. El drama pone en marcha su historia

las historias en ese campo se cuentan mejor si activan el conflicto entre el miedo y el deseo.

asking myself from time to time if it might be possible to teach English in such a way that people would stop killing each other

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

Insgeheim wächst in jeder blinden, kopflosen Verliebtheit der Hass auf den Geliebten, der den einzigen Schlüssel zum Glück besitzt.

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.