Quotes About Conflict

What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assas­sination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace.

How his family was killed. Fakhri and his thugs raiding villages, burning, raping. Sunnis, Shi'a, Alawites, Christians, everybody killing everybody else. People say the Mafia's bad. Mafia's nothing next to those fucking religions.

My war is not as simple as yours was, Father. People seem to question their obligation to serve on other than their own terms. But enough of that. I fight because we have always fought. It doesn't matter who.

The consequence of this reality was that in virtually every major battle of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers who did not own slaves were fighting against a proportion of Union Army soldiers who had not been asked to give theirs up.

The Northern army was most often run like a business, solving a problem. The Southern army was run like a family, confronting a human crisis.

In the living room Goodrich's father sat in a large chair across from the sofa, motionless. He appeared very tired. His mother stood nervously behind the chair, obviously dreading his entrance into the room.

Within weeks I would deploy to Vietnam, that endlessly debated but little-understood war that for the Marine Corps would bring three times the number of dead as were killed in Korea and more total killed and wounded than in any other war, including World War II.

Well, what kind of hello is that? Besides. You wouldn't want me as a supply officer, Bagger. I'd fuck it up so bad you'd starve.

They fought the Indians and then they fought the British, comprising 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army. They were the great pioneers— Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Davy Crockett among them— blazing the westward trails into Kentucky , Ohio, Tennessee, and beyond, where other Scots-Irishmen like Kit Carson picked up the slack.

We been abandoned, Lieutenant. We been kicked off the edge of the goddamn cliff. They don't know how to fight it, and they don't know how to stop fighting it.

It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.

All ways remember, incoming fire has the right of way.

War is not as the people at home imagine it, with a hurrah and a roar: it is very serious, very grim.'5

Treachery and acrimony are the wares that endure in the family heirs."

He did bad things. Even though he thought he was the hero.

Middlestein thought texting was the same as Morse code, and the more people texted, the closer American came to being a nation at war.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think." Gregory Bateson, Epistemologist

Joy and disappointment, at the same time, are not a good combination, as is mixing a wine and an ale in the same jug.

If you want peace, prepare for war.

For the true victory,neither enemies nor allies don't die without difference

Silver is stronger than the sword, and people married to a family of each other draw sword on each other.

a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the inconvenient of them all?

a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the the most inconvenient of them all?

If all our foes were like Al Ghouti, we would never win,' he said thoughtfully. 'On the other hand, if all our foes were like him, victory would no longer be necessary.