Quotes About Conflict

Sixteen different objections rose up in my mind at once and somehow they all canceled each other out. Maybe if there had been an odd number. . .

Amy put her hand on mine, her other hand balled up in a fist on the table.

Will said, "Molech, Zoey will not negotiate with you if you kill her mother. This is actually true of most people you'll encounter in a business setting.

the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

Since agape love is sacrificial love, and since it needs no reciprocation, the love of God constrains our natural reactions which cause so many of our conflicts. To love is to be set free. To love is to act as an agent of the Holy Spirit and not react to circumstances and people. To love is to enter a place of existence which causes us to be unshackled from the fears and frustrations which dominate this world.

In my most recent novel, The Eros Project, I have called this age–old habit of people of making war and preying upon each other simply the War. This use is close to what Hobbes identified as the war of all against all, which he thought to be the natural state of man.

Being human, they often confuse the World–soul's intention with their most basic desires.

He watched them return from the war unbowed, full of rage, and more committed than ever to white supremacy.

I was thinking..." "We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.

It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself

Be careful that the hill you die on isn't a molehill

The body politic: the slow agonizing death of demarcation & the quick Caesarian section birth of chaos.

There as yet to be a revolution where those who served it have not eventually been eaten

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.

Why must you argue before I even have my tea? So many words.

Julia Grey, I would rather see you hanged than watch any sister of mine go haring off after a man who will not have her," my brother Bellmont raged.

A bit of trouble with this? I'm having a goddamned nervous breakdown. The woman I love most in the world has—after five years of marriage—decided to finally tell me the truth about what she does. That's five years of lies. That's a shit-ton of lies.

Here, Mary Alice. Drink this and I'll see if I can find you a flashlight." Mary Alice furrowed her brow. "Flashlight?" "To find the stick up your ass. Let me know if you need a hand getting it out," Natalie said sweetly.

I hate all the white people. ... You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.