Quotes About Conflict

He's stubborn, " Tux warned in a singsong tone."Stay out of this, " Mark spat."And touchy, " Tux added.

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

We are not shooting enough professors.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.