Quotes About Conflict

Las guerras ocurren por culpa del deseo. Porque no nos separamos del animal, porque no lo mantenemos a raya, porque dejamos que nos ocupe todo el cuerpo y que nos vuelva animales...

Te veo tan hijo de puta como esos nazis que asesinaron a los judíos. Sos un criminal de guerra frustrado. Esta casa es un campo de concentración. Por la cocina corren tus alambradas electrizadas y tus perros. Yo soy la prisionera y vos el SS. Sos un guacho».

Ved cómo el odio y las luchas entre familias a nada conducen, más que al miedo, la locura y la muerte y cierto es que en muchos años que combatí junto a los míos contra nuestros eternos enemigos […], jamás vi nada bueno que lo justificase, porqué las rapiñas de unos con las rapiñas de otros se pagan, y los muertos de cada bando no tienen precio, sino que como una cadena van arrastrando nuevos muertos.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

'What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

Five years married and he has never once wished he dared kill her.

These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the drama of where they come from and how they live. The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

El agua sucia puede apagar un incendio

Sueño Un grupo de ciegos, lanzando insultos, se golpean con sus bastones. Uno de ellos me quiere atacar. Le digo: «No es necesario que se pelee conmigo. Yo no soy ciego».

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

a good time to be thinking about all that, given that we're just about to tear a new hole in the ass of Iraq.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Through it all, they kept pecking at one another, as is too often the case with fellows in misfortune.

perché le guerre fatte senza una ragione sarebbero ingiuste)

Lucia sighed and repeated, "Courage," in a voice that contradicted the word.

There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Can I just fight you now? Please? I'd rather die than continue this conversation.

Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

Everything depends which side of the shotgun you're on,