Quotes About Conflict

To be sure, late that afternoon, Union soldiers drifted into the Confederate camp, and soon knots of blue- and gray-clad men dotted the hills around Appomattox Court House; bullets were indeed replaced by backslaps, the rebel yell with a hearty Southern drawl, war fervor with the first hints of war nostalgia, unbridled hatred with nascent relief, and, by the next day, West Point mini-reunions were even breaking out at the McLean farmhouse. But

But, by the same token, there are also moments that can act as catalysts for peace.

Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair

When it comes to dysfunctional families," he said,"I'll put mine up against anyone's, anytime

you gave up any right to comment on the subject when you threw my ring back in my face, didn't you?" She (Elly) stiffened."I didn't throw it back. I just sort of set in down on your desk." He (Cooper)shrugged."We each have our own version of events, Want some fries?

why are you ending our engagement then?" "Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel) "I don't understand." "I know

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

Il y a l'amour... Et puis il y a la vie, son ennemie.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

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În lenta curgere a istoriei, cu sinozit??ile, cu ezit?rile, cu mla?tinile sale, cu timpii s?i mor?i, apar dintr-o dat?, ?i adesea în durere ?i sânge, avalan?e de violen?e ?i de relativ? simplicitate.

La guerre étant finie, on s'arme de nouveau

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Iraq, and suggested the soldiers

This guy is a real pain. I want to remind him that we're the good guys. We're not up at 4 a.m. because we like the way it feels.

What we need is hatred, from it our ideas are born

Dès qu'on entre en lutte contre la guerre, on entre en lutte contre le gouvernement.

Tu veux savoir ce qu'il faut faire, et tu ne connais pas seulement le monde où tu vis. Tu comprends que quelque chose est contre toi, et tu ne sais pas quoi.