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Quotes About Conflict

Hickenlooper's guns had range on him.
~ Jeff Shaara
Fone Bone: HOLD IT! Thorn thinks Gran'ma Ben can help us get back to Boneville! Phoney Bone: IT'S NOT WORTH IT! LET GO OF ME! Fone Bone: Would you wait a minute?!! We can explain everything! Phoney Bone: HELP! HELP! They've destroyed my cousin's brain!! OH MY GOSH! THey've already milked you haven't they?!!
~ Jeff Smith
If Raiders of the Lost Ark taught us anything, it's that you don't swing your sword at somebody who has a gun.
~ Jeff Strand
If you really want to shoot me, go ahead, but shooting your driver is one of the stupidest possible ways anybody could ever die.
~ Jeff Strand
Mandy gave him the finger. "You can have the rest of the booze, if you want," Stanley offered. "Go to hell." "Yes, ma'am.
~ Jeff Strand
No! Why didn't you tell me any of this before I went after her? In what universe should I come home and find out that you went behind my back and invited our goddamn son to kill a woman with me? You're supposed to be the rational one in the household! Do you have any concept of how fucked up this conversation is? Any concept at all?
~ Jeff Strand
What was he supposed to do besides break the living room window? Stand outside whacking off while she grabbed a cell phone and called for help?
~ Jeff Strand
Don't lick me, you asshole!" he said, trying to pull his arm free. Crabs licked George's forehead
~ Jeff Strand
Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I mourned the child I had known who was kind and sweet and curious, and yet could not stop killing.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Thus ended the Iran-Iraq War, one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the 20th century. After eight years of bitter fighting, untold casualties, and immeasurable suffering and dislocation, the two combatants were forced, out of sheer exhaustion and debilitation, to settle for the status quo ante existing in September 1980. Yet there was little doubt that neither of them viewed the ceasefire as the end of the conflict.
~ Efraim Karsh
Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)
~ Eknath Easwaran
may feel obligated to keep a low profile in an attempt to establish some sense of harmony. Unfortunately, at the same time, you may also be giving up opportunities to express your opinions and assert your needs.
~ Eleanor D. Payson
Cuando la Revolución agonizaba
~ Elena Garro
Luchaba entre varias memorias y la memoria de lo sucedido era la única irreal para él. De
~ Elena Garro
Anger can be a problem if you find yourself on the receiving end of it. Because you witnessed violent anger, you expect all arguments or expressions of angry feelings to result in violence. This is simply not the case. Many of you grew up without a middle ground for expressing anger - it was either not expressed, or exploded into violence. A middle ground is safe anger expression. (See Chapter VI).
~ Eliana Gil
Pero hoy la guerra ya no es guerra. Ya no es el hombre quien cuenta, la máquina lo es todo.
~ Elias Canetti
La massa è sempre una sorta di fortezza assediata, ma assediata in senso duplice: essa ha il nemico dinnanzi alle mura, e ha il nemico in cantina. Durante lo scontro la massa attira sempre più persone. Dinnanzi a tutte le porte si adunano i suoi nuovi amici e chiedono imperiosamente di essere accolti.
~ Elias Canetti
Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.
~ Elie Wiesel
It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
~ Elie Wiesel
True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.
~ Elie Wiesel
man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves. Hell is the burning fever that makes you feel cold.
~ Elie Wiesel
One German officer lived in the house opposite ours. He had a room with the Kahn family. They said he was a charming man - calm, likable, polite, and sympathetic. Three days after he moved in he brought Madame Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists rejoiced.
~ Elie Wiesel
A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.
~ Elie Wiesel