Quotes About Conflict

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

In 1737, a Connecticut husband—perchance while snoring—received from his wife a shovel of hot embers in his gaping mouth,

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business.

Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns.

proportionately, being a journalist in a war is more dangerous than being in the Special Forces, and more important.

In the nineteenth century, one in three British soldiers was an Irishman.

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Sarajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air. And he that stands will die for nought, and home there's no returning. The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.

Tu mirada traiciona la voluntad de tu corazón.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?

Había pasado por la vida en un estado de oposición y exasperación, ofendiendo y siendo ofendido sin motivo ni escrúpulos.

El temperamento y las circunstancias de este hombre desgraciado habían estado en guerra con su talento.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

Those British generals who prolonged the slaughter kept their posts and won promotion; any who protested ran the risk of dismissal. By

nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

This pattern tells the client that his friends are involved in personal wars and disputes. He may get caught in the middle of several disagreements. Here, there is danger: His friends, relatives, and acquaintances might all tell him lies or half truths, hoping to make him take sides. In all patterns of Ogundá, the number three is a danger. There are two sides to every disagreement, but if the client gets involved, he creates a threesome. He must refuse to be involved