Quotes About Conflict

There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.

Before you have children, the novelist Fay Weldon once said, you can believe you are a nice person: after you have children you understand how wars start.

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

The Tohopeka massacre, known afterward as the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, was the bloodiest battle in the long history of conflict between American Indians and the United States.

The whole enterprise involved terror and violence.

When it comes to expressions of violence, humans excel.

Most cultures agree that killing other people is forbidden, and it is even enshrined in the Abrahamic commandments, though it seems this is interpreted as more of a guideline than a rule, given the enthusiasm with which the disciples of Christ and Muhammad have engaged with the snuffing out of other people's light.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

As billionaire investor Warren Buffett famously put it: "Actually, there's been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.

It was also the Luftwaffe that would be the first to face the terrifying industrial might of the United States.

given the startling superiority of much of the Red Army's weaponry, the Wehrmacht needed an entire new generation of tanks and infantry weapons.

I don't like you bondsman. But I hate mysteries even more

You haven't played a boring game of checkers until you've played the one where the red and black pieces get along. They don't even just one another. They just circle the board and sing.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

1. Start by acknowledging the children's anger towards each other. That alone should help calm them. 2. Listen to each child's side with respect. 3. Show appreciation for the difficulty of the problem. 4. Express faith in their ability to work out a mutually agreeable solution. 5. Leave the room.

Insisting upon good feelings between the children led to bad feelings. Acknowledging bad feelings between the children led to good feelings.

When children want something they can't have, adults usually respond with logical explanations of why they can't have it. Often, the harder we explain, the harder they protest.

There is an important message built into this approach. It says, "When there is conflict between us, we no longer have to mobilize our forces against each other and worry about who will emerge victorious and who will go down in defeat. Instead, we can put our energy into searching for the kinds of solutions that respect both our needs as individuals.

One of the built-in frustrations of parenthood is the daily struggle to get our children to behave in ways that are acceptable to us and to society. This can be maddening, uphill work. Part of the problem lies in the conflict of needs.

If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?

Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.

We speak with hideous honesty. A pair of women who have been the very best to one another and now the worst.