Quotes About Conflict

When red fires blaze in the mountains, why would one need more dry wood? When great rivers are already swollen with water, what need could there be for a heavy rain? When there is already discord between countries, why stir up further turmoil?

Scissors. He'd pulled a credit card and a pair of scissors from the drawer. Which meant he could either bribe or stab his adversary. Or he could go into a frenzy and cut up Jill's credit card. That would confuse 'em.

Why are men ever at war? For power and greed and to enforce their own views on others.

There is often the fear of "making waves" or "not being good" and enormous guilt for doing or saying the wrong thing or making a mistake. Family members rarely see or learn normal conflict resolution, and any sign of conflict triggers fear of either violence or abandonment.

All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.

Harley ignored the sarcasm in the manager's voice. "Things are pretty... tense... here." "I'm sure they are. Mr. Sheenan is very unhappy, as we are, too. You've put

brother kicked my shin to silence me. Neighbor Goad's face deepened to purple. "Come again, mother-whelp?" "He's tipsy, Mr. Goad, sir," my brother muttered. "And green," he added, pinching

turn towards evil had come," she wrote, after hearing her brother damn the United States and the "falsely" elected president. It was

was held captive in my home. I should have told the soldiers who came with guns drawn and bayonets at the ready this true thing: I might have stopped him, for I harbored him and kept his secrets. I was a pie safe locked tight and guilty as he. ——— Asia Booth Clarke was thirty years old and pregnant with her first child when Union soldiers and Federal detectives stormed her Maryland home in search of her assassin-brother.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

I ain't never known you to fight over a woman, Cardone," Clint remarked. "This one I will." -Clint & Lynx

If you let that tempestuous girl order you around or insult you again, I'll turn you over my knees and spank you. If she's going to treat my wife like that, then she'd best get the hell out of my home. The first time she ordered you out of your own kitchen, you should have flung a skillet at her, preferably a hot one." -Lynx

Cole stiffened in fury. "That good for nothing bitch! If I ever get my hands on her again, I'll..." Lynx grabbed Cole by the front of his shirt and yanked him to his feet. He delivered several blows into Cole's face and gut with lightening speed and forceful strength. "I'll kill you if you even think about her in passing," Lynx warned ominously at Cole's threat. -Cole & Lynx

Newton ruled the Royal Society like a tyrant. This led to some ugly incidents. The worst was the fight about who really invented calculus.

War is completely devoid of magic." He grinned again. "But ye may recall I mentioned that a strong arm is sometimes needed to help benevolence along.

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

I hope this doesn't come down to choosing between two of my best friends.

When the pursuit of love trumps obligations.

Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer got into a fistfight.

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.

Hate has no ears.