Quotes About Conflict

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

I'll come after you as soon as I take care of them." "Where does that thing go?" "I'm not sure. It was too dark to see last night, but whatever it is, it's better than being caught in here." She looked back toward the cave entrance. "There are two of them and only one of you." He gave her a cocky grin. "One of me is better than two of them.

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.

Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country. [...] When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him. [...] I have two mountains in that country--the Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountain. I want the Great Father to make no roads through them.

When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect.

He'd captured bandits, stopped vandals and settled disputes with hostile natives. Who would have thought the one thing to terrify him was the thought of loving a pretty woman named Beth Wallin?

Meekness disarms the violent.

Opposition comes to those who have taken a position.

The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.

It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food.

History is a struggle between the "old" right that intended to be just and the "new" that promises to be.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Know I don't hate you Don't wanna fight you Know I'll always love you But right now I just don't like you Cause you took this too far

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Het enige dat de mensen verbindt zijn de oorlogen die ze elkaar aandoen.

Los profesores, al igual que los padres, por un lado, se ven obligados a defender su autoridad y, por el otro, se ven inducidos a pactar, en una exasperante y confusa negociación, con los alumnos y sus familias y con la burocracia escolar y ministerial

El yo se forma a través de dinámicas de interacción entre sujetos que se reconocen, se aprueban, se critican, se pelean, se aman o se odian.

Il faisait un froid de guerre.

L'homme croit mourir pour défendre sa terre, sa femme, sa liberté, ses idées, alors qu'il meurt simplement parce qu'il est de trop.

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

Everywhere and always, when human beings either cannot or dare not take their anger out on the thing that has caused it, they unconsciously search for substitutes, and more often than not they find them.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.