Quotes About Conflict

Abbott joined the union, the Australian Journalists' Association. He led a little strike at the Bulletin and opposed a big strike at the Australian.

Abbott thought Turnbull's leadership was terminal at that moment. What he was hearing was a bar-room brawl between his leader and the guru of a great swathe of the Liberal Party. This was no way to deal with Alan Jones. Turnbull wasn't showing the necessary respect. It would cause immense damage.

They were wary of each other at first, but in time formed a tight alliance that lasted twenty years until it came unstuck over the execution of Julia Gillard.

Why didn't I ask him for his number, address, e-mail — anything? Why? Because I'm in a sodding war zone, that's why. And I'm a soldier. And this wasn't supposed to happen.

anger causes so much misery both for the person on the receiving end, as well as for the person experiencing it.

Until now we've discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you'll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just "us and "them", and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

If he had really wanted to control himself, he could have. He simply had not wanted to control himself. To live his way, he had been determined to fight anyone who interfered. So all right then, in a way he had fought for a principle. But it was not that simple, because he had also been proud and delighted to show how good he was at fighting.

This was precisely what Kennedy expected and feared Churchill was going to say. The newly installed prime minister intended to push the British to fight on until the Americans had no choice but to enter the war or watch from the sidelines as Great Britain was conquered.

the ring of weapons aimed directly at the Jeep was impressive. "I thought you said he was your friend," Mack said. "Well, we've been growing apart recently," Bullfinch said.

We'll handle this ourselves." Then the line went dead before Mack could point out that there was a confused army between them and "'handling"' it.

Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister in a caravan in Filey while her parents drank steadily and looked out at the rain, a sort of harsh experiment in the limits of human proximity.

And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise that sounded almost like rage. 'What's up?' he asked. 'Nothing. Oh, nothing. Just...' She looked up at him. 'I thought I'd finally got rid of you.' 'I don't think you can.' he said

the memorial stained-glass window dedicated to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, on whose side God had been in two world wars, though this hadn't prevented them suffering heavy casualties.

If I do not destroy the "family," the "family" will destroy me. —R. D. Laing

Every generation has its hottest of all hot-button issues, the issue that becomes the litmus test of everyone's orthodoxy and provokes conflicts sometimes leading to schism. In earlier generations it was slavery, or segregation, or apartheid, or Nazism, or abortion, or temperance, or Sabbath or tongue-speaking

It's a big black bloody world full of a million black and bloody hells, and when those hells collide it's time for us to sit up and take fucking notice.

Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me.

Women, eh? Can't live with them, can't kill 'em. 'Cept round Chapeltown.

It is a war of nerves and there will be casualties.

He hates me and I hate him, but I hate him more, more and more-

Why me? All we do is argue." "That's why I want you

If you don't display a little more grace, I'm going to smear butter all over your face!

Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley

It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.