Quotes About Conflict

Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

The sword of Mohammad, and the Kor'än, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth which the world has yet known.

And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.

She slapped Kestrel's face. Without thinking twice, Kestrel slapped her back, as hard as she could. The young woman burst into tears. The servant saw this, aghast. "Baby!" She exclaimed. "Oh, my poor baby!" "You've been kind to me," said Kestrel, "and you're very beautiful, but if you hit me again I'll kill you.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

Había una guerra, pero, como siempre, la dirigencia colombiana aceptaba como legítima toda violencia que se ejerciera desde el poder y condenaba como criminal toda violencia que se opusiera a las autoridades, incluso en legítima defensa, aunque la actuación de las autoridades fuera evidentemente injusta.

Desde el momento en que Colón vio cruzar por el cielo esos pájaros desconocidos y Rodrigo de Triana gritó bajo la noche esa palabra, aquí toda la tierra es el mapa de una ambición: forcejear por las selvas es el oficio de los brazos enguantados de acero, y los que se apropiaron de la tierra de otros no vacilan jamás en verter sangre, por amiga que sea, para sostener ante Dios que la propiedad es sagrada

Sólo una oposición legal verdaderamente actuante y eficaz puede hacer inútil e injustificada la dañina oposición armada, con su capacidad de extorsión y de terrorismo.

To be sure, there is no advance guarantee that when two practices are in total or massive conflict with each other, one of them will be more firmly established than the other. But that is just an example of the general point that the human condition provides no guarantee that we will not be faced with questions we have no way to settle.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves.

I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves … for ourselves.

No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves … for ourselves.