Quotes About Conflict

Miko: You would stand between me and this evil murderer? Hinjo: I'll stand between any two murderers I wish, thanks.

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.

I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

There are no civilians in Japan.

As Zabelka remarked, the just war theory is "something that Christ never taught or even hinted at."6

Where Christ erecteth his church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel.

Whereas there is among you envy and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

How was power to be shared in a country that in its three-thousand-year history had never once witnessed a peaceful struggle for power?

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

In 1830, the writer Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve (1804–69) fought one of the owners of Le Globe in heavy rain; Saint-Beuve held an umbrella throughout the duel, claiming that he did not mind dying but he would not get wet.

Two poets, Nikolai Gumilyov and Maximilian Voloshin, fought a duel over a non-existent woman.

As late as 1883, when dueling of all kinds had almost been eradicated elsewhere, a rapier duel between a soda-water seller and a catfish dealer lasted eighty-three minutes before either combatant drew blood.

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

Oh damn! One measly civil war in the entire history of England and I'm on the wrong bloody side!

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.